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Chronic Disease Management and Prevention Through Healthy Habits in the Entire Population

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Chronic Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 1819

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Rossella Sacchetti

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Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, University of Bologna, 1088 Bologna, Italy
Interests: nutrition; dietary habits; lifestyle medicine; public health; health promotion
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Dr. Alice Masini

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Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro, 28100 Novara, Italy
Interests: lifestyle medicine, health promotion and prevention interventions; physical activity and nutrition
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the current century, chronic diseases are rising, creating new health needs for the population which require a shift from an acute care model to a coordinated and comprehensive care continuum. Education regarding healthy habits and chronic conditions’ management and prevention must play an increasingly important role in public health in every age group and setting. This Special Issue of Healthcare aims to provide an update on the latest evidence on the relation between chronic disease management and prevention and healthy habits. 

We are also seeking studies that investigate new approaches or innovative strategies for promoting a healthy lifestyle in the entire population to prevent and manage chronic conditions. This Special Issue is open to original research, review articles, short reports, brief commentaries, case reports, and meta-analyses.

Dr. Rossella Sacchetti
Dr. Alice Masini
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • nutrition
  • dietary habits
  • lifestyle medicine
  • public health
  • health promotion
  • physical activity and nutrition

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Predicting Smoking Cessation Stages: An Insight from the Transtheoretical Model Using a Cross-Sectional Approach Among Adults in Saudi Arabia
by Samiha Hamdi Sayed, Olfat Abdulgafoor Gushgari and Wafaa Taha Ibrahim Elgzar
Healthcare 2024, 12(23), 2343; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12232343 - 23 Nov 2024
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Background: Smoking is a detrimental health behavior that can be addressed by designing stage-matched interventions with evidence-based behavioral change models such as the transtheoretical model (TTM). This study applied the TTM to predict smoking cessation stages among adults in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This [...] Read more.
Background: Smoking is a detrimental health behavior that can be addressed by designing stage-matched interventions with evidence-based behavioral change models such as the transtheoretical model (TTM). This study applied the TTM to predict smoking cessation stages among adults in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This social media-based cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia used a convenient sample of 491 adult smokers (men and women). A digital questionnaire containing basic and smoking-related data and smoking scales (stages of change, cessation readiness, decisional balance, and self-efficacy) was used for data collection. The data were collected from 1 July to 30 October 2023 and were investigated using an ordinal regression analysis. The results illustrate that among the studied smokers, cigarette smoking was the prevalent method of smoking, especially among men (71.7%) compared to women (27.8%). Regarding stages of smoking, the pre-contemplation (35.8%) and contemplation (30.1%) stages were the highest, where men were more represented in both stages (37.9% and 40.8%, respectively). In comparison, women represented a higher percentage in the action (23.9%) and maintenance (21.1%) stages. The ordinal regression showed that increasing age (adjusted odds ratio; AOR = 1.045, p = 0.044), high quitting readiness (AOR = 1.134, p < 0.001), self-efficacy (AOR = 1.965, p = 0.028), decisional balance (AOR = 1.870, p < 0.001), and absence of psychological problems (AOR = 2.047, p < 0.001) increased the likelihood of being at higher smoking cessation stages. However, increased smoking duration (AOR = 0.756, p = 0.010), male gender (AOR = 0.340, p < 0.001), not working (AOR = 0.364, p = 0.013), adequate income (AOR = 0.535, p = 0.032), no chronic diseases (AOR = 0.430, p < 0.001), regular smoking (AOR = 0.052, p < 0.001), high smoking dependency (AOR = 0.775, p = 0.038), and hookah smoking (AOR = 0.032, p < 0.001) decreased the likelihood of being at higher smoking cessation stages. Conclusions: Cigarette smoking is a prevalent problem among Saudi adults, especially men, with the highest percentage of these being at lower smoking cessation stages. Thus, this study recommends the development of stage-matched interventions to facilitate the move towards higher smoking cessation stages through efforts by, and collaboration between, community sectors to face this rising issue. Full article
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