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List of works by Philayrath Phongsavan

'Get Healthy, Stay Healthy': protocol for evaluation of a lifestyle intervention delivered by text-message following the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®.

scientific article published on 04 February 2014

'Translational formative evaluation': critical in up-scaling public health programmes

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

A 3-Arm randomised controlled trial of Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity

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A Mobile Health Lifestyle Program for Prevention of Weight Gain in Young Adults (TXT2BFiT): Nine-Month Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

A population-based lifestyle intervention to promote healthy weight and physical activity in people with cardiac disease: the PANACHE (Physical Activity, Nutrition And Cardiac HEalth) study protocol

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Age, Gender, Social Contacts, and Psychological Distress

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Are total, intensity- and domain-specific physical activity levels associated with life satisfaction among university students?

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Are we delaying the inevitable? Maintaining lifestyle changes six months after the �Get Healthy, Stay Healthy� extended contact intervention (Preprint)

Associations between multiple health risk behaviors and mental health among Chinese college students.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Associations between socio-economic position and sedentary behaviour in a large population sample of Australian middle and older-aged adults: The Social, Economic, and Environmental Factor (SEEF) Study.

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

Body mass index, physical activity and dietary behaviours among adolescents in the Kingdom of Tonga.

scientific article published in February 2007

Can a motivational intervention overcome an unsupportive environment for walking--findings from the Step-by-Step Study.

scientific article published in October 2009

Cardiac Patients' Experiences and Perceptions of Social Media: Mixed-Methods Study.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Characteristics of participants in Australia's Get Healthy telephone-based lifestyle information and coaching service: reaching disadvantaged communities and those most at need

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

Combined Association of Diet and Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Schoolchildren

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Comparison of tobacco, alcohol and illegal drug usage among school students in three Pacific Island societies

scientific article published on 19 October 2006

Comprehensive sector-wide strategies to prevent and control obesity: what are the potential health and broader societal benefits? A case study from Australia

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Cross-national comparisons of socioeconomic differences in the prevalence of leisure-time and occupational physical activity, and active commuting in six Asia-Pacific countries

scientific article published on October 13, 2010

Developing antitobacco mass media campaign messages in a low-resource setting: experience from the Kingdom of Tonga

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Does playground improvement increase physical activity among children? A quasi-experimental study of a natural experiment

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Driving: a road to unhealthy lifestyles and poor health outcomes

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Effective Strategies to Recruit Young Adults Into the TXT2BFiT mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial for Weight Gain Prevention

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Effectiveness of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service: maintenance of self-reported anthropometric and behavioural changes after program completion

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Effectiveness of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®: translational research with population wide impact

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Effectiveness of a mHealth Lifestyle Program With Telephone Support (TXT2BFiT) to Prevent Unhealthy Weight Gain in Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Effectiveness of a pedometer-based telephone coaching program on weight and physical activity for people referred to a cardiac rehabilitation program: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on March 2015

Effects of a Pedometer-Based Telephone Coaching Intervention on Physical Activity Among People with Cardiac Disease in Urban, Rural and Semi-Rural Settings: A Replication Study

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

Effects of a pedometer-based intervention on physical activity levels after cardiac rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on March 2009

Epidemiology of substance use in adolescence: prevalence, trends and policy implications

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Estimating physical activity level: the role of domestic activities.

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Evaluating the Maintenance of Lifestyle Changes in a Randomized Controlled Trial of the 'Get Healthy, Stay Healthy' Program.

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Evaluation Framework for Translational Research

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy: Evaluation of the Maintenance of Lifestyle Changes Six Months After an Extended Contact Intervention

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Health behaviour and lifestyle of Pacific youth surveys: a resource for capacity building

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Holiday waistline. Jolly, fit and fat: should we be singing the "Santa Too Fat Blues"?

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Impact of an outdoor gym on park users' physical activity: A natural experiment

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Impact of the Swap It, Don't Stop It Australian National Mass Media Campaign on Promoting Small Changes to Lifestyle Behaviors.

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Improved confidence in performing nutrition and physical activity behaviours mediates behavioural change in young adults: Mediation results of a randomised controlled mHealth intervention

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Improved eating behaviours mediate weight gain prevention of young adults: moderation and mediation results of a randomised controlled trial of TXT2BFiT, mHealth program

scientific article published on 2 April 2016

Long-term changes in leisure time walking, moderate and vigorous exercise: Were they influenced by the national physical activity guidelines?

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Longer Term Impact of the Mass Media Campaign to Promote the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®

Maximising follow-up participation rates in a large scale 45 and Up Study in Australia

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Mental illness and physical activity: therapists' beliefs and practices

scientific article published in May 2007

Metabolic risk profiles and associated risk factors among Vietnamese adults in Ho Chi Minh City

scientific article published in February 2010

Methods of the NSW schools fitness and physical activity survey, 1997

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Physical activity measurement- a primer for health promotion

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Piloting proactive marketing to recruit disadvantaged adults to a community-wide obesity prevention program

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Prevalence and risk factors of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in Nauru

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Process evaluation of TXT2BFiT: a multi-component mHealth randomised controlled trial to prevent weight gain in young adults

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Promoting Walking with Pedometers in the CommunityThe Step-by-Step Trial

scientific article published on 15 February 2007

Promoting physical activity participation among children and adolescents

scientific article published on 7 June 2007

Promoting walking as an adjunct intervention to group cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders—A pilot group randomized trial

article by Dafna Merom et al published August 2008 in Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Psychosocial impact of specialized cardiac genetic clinics for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published in February 2008

Psychosocial profiles of adolescent nonsmokers in the Pacific.

scientific article published in January 2011

Recruiting young adults into the TXT2BFiT trial for prevention of weight gain: Effectiveness and cost strategies

Role of general practice in the utilisation of the NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service.

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Social capital, socio-economic status and psychological distress among Australian adults

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

The cost-effectiveness of a cardiovascular risk reduction program in general practice.

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The prevalence and correlates of physical inactivity among adults in Ho Chi Minh City

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Using mass-media communications to increase population usage of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®.

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Variation in health inequalities according to measures of socioeconomic status and age.

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Weight-Related Goal Setting in a Telephone-Based Preventive Health-Coaching Program: Demonstration of Effectiveness.

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Where you live matters: challenges and opportunities to address the urban-rural divide through innovative secondary cardiac rehabilitation programs

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