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  1. A handy guide for conducting implementation trials.
  2. Which countries have data on how long people sit per day?
  3. Secondary schools need support to become more physically active
  4. Technology – can it improve the use of public health research?
  5. Which bits of a school physical activity program work and how?
  6. How are evidence generation partnerships between researchers and policy-makers enacted in practice? A qualitative interview study
  7. Barriers to implementation of a healthy canteen policy: A survey using the theoretical domains framework
  8. A global physical activity research and practice conference
  9. Effect of electronic screening and brief intervention on hazardous or harmful drinking among adults in the hospital outpatient setting: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial
  10. Musculoskeletal conditions may increase the risk of chronic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
  11. Strategies to improve the implementation of policies, practices or programmes in sporting organisations targeting poor diet, physical inactivity, obesity, risky alcohol use or tobacco use: a systematic review
  12. A practice change intervention to improve antenatal care addressing alcohol consumption by women during pregnancy: research protocol for a randomised stepped-wedge cluster trial
  13. Availability of food and beverage items on school canteen menus and association with items purchased by children of primary-school age
  14. A protocol for a study testing a program to reduce sugary drink intake in teens
  15. Providing routine chronic disease preventive care in community substance use services: a pilot study of a multistrategic clinical practice change intervention
  16. Differential intervention effectiveness of a universal school-based resilience intervention in reducing adolescent substance use within student subgroups: exploratory assessment within a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  17. Challenges of Increasing Childcare Center Compliance With Nutrition Guidelines: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention Providing Training, Written Menu Feedback, and Printed Resources
  18. Scale up of a multi-strategic intervention to increase implementation of a school healthy canteen policy: findings of an intervention trial
  19. Whole-of-community interventions to reduce population-level harms arising from alcohol and other drug use: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  20. Prevalence of night sleep duration, sleep quality and sleep hygiene practices among children attending childcare services in New South Wales, Australia
  21. Alcohol management practices in community sporting clubs: Validation of an online self-report tool
  22. Effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle intervention for chronic low back pain
  23. Regulating e-cigarettes in Australia: implications for tobacco use by young people
  24. Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under
  25. Feasibility and principal acceptability of school-based mobile communication applications to disseminate healthy lunchbox messages to parents
  26. Systematic review of interventions to increase the provision of care for chronic disease risk behaviours in mental health settings: review protocol
  27. Smoking, drinking, and depression: comorbidity in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
  28. Impact of scheduling multiple outdoor free-play periods in childcare on child moderate-to-vigorous physical activity: a cluster randomised trial
  29. Telephone-based weight loss support for patients with knee osteoarthritis: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
  30. Economic analysis of three interventions of different intensity in improving school implementation of a government healthy canteen policy in Australia: costs, incremental and relative cost effectiveness
  31. Prevalence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among youth globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis of country level data
  32. Mechanisms of implementing public health interventions: a pooled causal mediation analysis of randomised trials
  33. Barriers and Enablers to Implementation of Dietary Guidelines in Early Childhood Education Centers in Australia: Application of the Theoretical Domains Framework
  34. Assessing the potential impact of a front-of-pack nutritional rating system on food availability in school canteens: A randomised controlled trial
  35. Effect of electronic brief intervention on uptake of specialty treatment in hospital outpatients with likely alcohol dependence: Pilot randomized trial and qualitative interviews
  36. Difficulties in implementing school physical activity policies
  37. Improving the public health impact of eHealth and mHealth interventions
  38. Head and neck cancer patient experience of a new dietitian-delivered health behaviour intervention: ‘you know you have to eat to survive’
  39. Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under
  40. Effectiveness of clinical practice change strategies in improving dietitian care for head and neck cancer patients according to evidence-based clinical guidelines: a stepped-wedge, randomized controlled trial
  41. Regulating e-cigarettes in Australia: implications for tobacco use by young people
  42. Randomised controlled trial of a web-based programme in sustaining best practice alcohol management practices at community sports clubs: a study protocol
  43. Interventions to improve screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer for psychosocial distress: systematic review
  44. Factors that influence the implementation of dietary guidelines regarding food provision in centre based childcare services: A systematic review
  45. Measurement of the translation and impact from a childhood obesity trial programme: rationale and protocol for a research impact assessment
  46. An RCT to Facilitate Implementation of School Practices Known to Increase Physical Activity
  47. Feasibility and efficacy of the Great Leaders Active StudentS (GLASS) program on children’s physical activity and object control skill competency: A non-randomised trial
  48. Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease
  49. Improving the implementation of nutrition guidelines in childcare centres improves child dietary intake: findings of a randomised trial of an implementation intervention
  50. Effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care: a systematic review
  51. Hospital Smoke-Free Policy: Compliance, Enforcement, and Practices. A Staff Survey in Two Large Public Hospitals in Australia
  52. Living systematic reviews: 2. Combining human and machine effort
  53. Living systematic reviews: 3. Statistical methods for updating meta-analyses
  54. Living systematic reviews: 4. Living guideline recommendations
  55. Toward criteria for pragmatic measurement in implementation research and practice: a stakeholder-driven approach using concept mapping
  56. Substance Use, Mental Health and Pain in Adolescents
  57. Systematic Review of Universal Resilience-Focused Interventions Targeting Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the School Setting
  58. Cluster randomized controlled trial of a consumer behavior intervention to improve healthy food purchases from online canteens
  59. Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under
  60. Living systematic review: 1. Introduction—the why, what, when, and how
  61. A randomised controlled trial of an online menu planning intervention to improve childcare service adherence to dietary guidelines: a study protocol
  62. Dietary intake and physical activity levels of children attending Australian childcare services
  63. Increasing the provision of preventive care by community healthcare services: a stepped wedge implementation trial
  64. A multi-faceted intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and harm amongst sports people in Ireland: A controlled trial
  65. Smoking, Quitting, and the Provision of Smoking Cessation Support
  66. Effectiveness of a pragmatic school-based universal resilience intervention in reducing tobacco, alcohol and illicit substance use in a population of adolescents: cluster-randomised controlled trial
  67. Smoke-Free Recovery from Trauma Surgery: A Pilot Trial of an Online Smoking Cessation Program for Orthopaedic Trauma Patients
  68. Evidence of the Potential Effectiveness of Centre-Based Childcare Policies and Practices on Child Diet and Physical Activity: Consolidating Evidence from Systematic Reviews of Intervention Trials and Observational Studies
  69. Systematic review of universal school-based ‘resilience’ interventions targeting adolescent tobacco, alcohol or illicit substance use: A meta-analysis
  70. The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-Based Alcohol Management Intervention in Community Sports Clubs: A Cross-Sectional Study
  71. Comparison of online and paper survey participation rates in a child health survey by parents of secondary school students
  72. Effectiveness of a pragmatic school-based universal intervention targeting student resilience protective factors in reducing mental health problems in adolescents
  73. Mechanism evaluation of a lifestyle intervention for patients with musculoskeletal pain who are overweight or obese: protocol for a causal mediation analysis
  74. Who is More Likely to Use the Internet for Health Behavior Change? A Cross-Sectional Survey of Internet Use Among Smokers and Nonsmokers Who Are Orthopedic Trauma Patients
  75. Embedding researchers in health service organizations improves research translation and health service performance: the Australian Hunter New England Population Health example
  76. Are Physical Education lessons for teens active enough? Here is a clue: no.
  77. Measuring implementation behaviour of menu guidelines in the childcare setting: confirmatory factor analysis of a theoretical domains framework questionnaire (TDFQ)
  78. Efficacy of a universal smoking cessation intervention initiated in inpatient psychiatry and continued post-discharge: A randomised controlled trial
  79. Cluster randomised controlled trial of a consumer behaviour intervention to improve healthy food purchases from online canteens: study protocol
  80. Factors associated with the implementation of a vegetable and fruit program in a population of Australian elementary schools
  81. Development of an online smoking cessation program for use in hospital and following discharge: smoke-free recovery
  82. Early childhood education and health working in partnership: the critical role early childhood educators can play in childhood obesity prevention
  83. Improving the impact of obesity prevention interventions in the childcare setting: The need for a systematic application of implementation science
  84. Multi-strategic intervention to enhance implementation of healthy canteen policy: a randomised controlled trial
  85. Strategies to improve the implementation of workplace-based policies or practices targeting tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity and obesity
  86. The price of healthy and unhealthy foods in Australian primary school canteens
  87. A bibliographic review of public health dissemination and implementation research output and citation rates
  88. CAFÉ: a multicomponent audit and feedback intervention to improve implementation of healthy food policy in primary school canteens: a randomised controlled trial
  89. Developing implementation science to improve the translation of research to address low back pain: A critical review
  90. Causal mechanisms in the clinical course and treatment of back pain
  91. Smoking and Mental Illness: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Output Over Time
  92. Psychometric properties of implementation measures for public health and community settings and mapping of constructs against the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research: a systematic review
  93. Association between adolescent tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use and individual and environmental resilience protective factors
  94. Effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention to enhance implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools: a randomised controlled trial
  95. Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare services
  96. Improving the translation of health promotion interventions using effectiveness-implementation hybrid designs in program evaluations
  97. Validity of four measures in assessing school canteen menu compliance with state-based healthy canteen policy
  98. A randomised controlled trial of multiple periods of outdoor free-play to increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among 3 to 6 year old children attending childcare: study protocol
  99. Smoking cessation care among patients with head and neck cancer: a systematic review
  100. Provision of Chronic Disease Preventive Care in Community Substance Use Services: Client and Clinician Report
  101. The cost effectiveness of a secondary school-based physical activity intervention
  102. Family-based prevention programs for alcohol use in young people
  103. Comparative efficacy of simultaneous versus sequential multiple health behavior change interventions among adults: A systematic review of randomised trials
  104. Did Physical Activity 4 Everyone work? | Efficacy Trial
  105. Modifiable health risk behaviours and attitudes towards behaviour change of clients attending community-based substance use treatment services
  106. Preventing obesity through a school physical activity program?
  107. Multistrategy childcare-based intervention to improve compliance with nutrition guidelines versus usual care in long day care services: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  108. A longitudinal study assessing childcare services' adoption of obesity prevention policies and practices
  109. Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour or improving health outcomes
  110. Online canteens: awareness, use, barriers to use, and the acceptability of potential online strategies to improve public health nutrition in primary schools
  111. A systematic review and meta-analysis of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels in elementary school physical education lessons
  112. Identifying gaps for research prioritisation: Global burden of external causes of injury as reflected in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  113. Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions targeting sleep and their impact on child body mass index, diet, and physical activity
  114. Smoking and environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and associations with quitting behaviour and motivation; a cross sectional study
  115. The impact of alcohol management practices on sports club membership and revenue
  116. What is generated and what is used: a description of public health research output and citation: Table 1
  117. Preliminary report: training head and neck cancer dietitians in behaviour change counselling
  118. Time to focus on implementation: the need to re-orient research on physical activity in childcare services
  119. Effectiveness of centre-based childcare interventions in increasing child physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis for policymakers and practitioners
  120. Mental health clinician attitudes to the provision of preventive care for chronic disease risk behaviours and association with care provision
  121. Randomised controlled trial of referral to a telephone-based weight management and healthy lifestyle programme for patients with knee osteoarthritis who are overweight or obese: a study protocol
  122. A randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle behavioural intervention for patients with low back pain, who are overweight or obese: study protocol
  123. The ‘Seven deadly sins’ of rejected papers
  124. Interventions by Health Care Professionals Who Provide Routine Child Health Care to Reduce Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Children
  125. A guide to scaling up population health interventions
  126. Interventions in sports settings to reduce risky alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm: a systematic review
  127. Nicotine replacement therapy as a smoking cessation aid among disadvantaged smokers: What answers do we need?
  128. A theory-based evaluation of a dissemination intervention to improve childcare cooks’ intentions to implement nutritional guidelines on their menus
  129. Effectiveness of an intervention in increasing the provision of preventive care by community mental health services: a non-randomized, multiple baseline implementation trial
  130. Increasing smoking cessation care across a network of hospitals: an implementation study
  131. Systematic review of universal resilience interventions targeting child and adolescent mental health in the school setting: review protocol
  132. Effectiveness of an intervention to facilitate the implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in childcare services: a randomised controlled trial
  133. Fidelity considerations in translational research: Eating As Treatment — a stepped wedge, randomised controlled trial of a dietitian delivered behaviour change counselling intervention for head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
  134. Characteristics of the home food environment that mediate immediate and sustained increases in child fruit and vegetable consumption: mediation analysis from the Healthy Habits cluster randomised controlled trial
  135. Results from half-way through the Physical Activity 4 Everyone trial | Efficacy Trial
  136. Facilitating police recording of the alcohol‐related characteristics of assault incidents: A stepped wedge implementation trial
  137. Interventions to improve screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer for distress: systematic review protocol
  138. Local implementation of obesity policy
  139. Reducing research waste and improving research impact
  140. Acceptability and Receipt of Preventive Care for Chronic-Disease Health Risk Behaviors Reported by Clients of Community Mental Health Services
  141. Assessment of the School Nutrition Environment
  142. Eating As Treatment (EAT) study protocol: a stepped-wedge, randomised controlled trial of a health behaviour change intervention provided by dietitians to improve nutrition in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy
  143. Systematic reviews examining implementation of research into practice and impact on population health are needed
  144. Healthier options do not reduce total energy of parent intended fast food purchases for their young children: a randomised controlled trial
  145. Targeting multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students using electronic feedback and online and telephone support: protocol for a cluster randomised trial
  146. Tackling risky alcohol consumption in sport: a cluster randomised controlled trial of an alcohol management intervention with community football clubs
  147. CAFÉ: a multicomponent audit and feedback intervention to improve implementation of healthy food policy in primary school canteens: protocol of a randomised controlled trial
  148. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of an implementation intervention to increase healthy eating and physical activity-promoting policies, and practices in centre-based childcare services: study protocol
  149. Improvement in primary school adherence to the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy in 2007 and 2010
  150. Factors associated with early childhood education and care service implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in Australia: a cross-sectional study
  151. Childcare Service Centers’ Preferences and Intentions to Use a Web-Based Program to Implement Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Policies and Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study
  152. Alignment of systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Database of Abstracts and Reviews of Effectiveness with global burden-of-disease data: a bibliographic analysis
  153. Improving availability, promotion and purchase of fruit and vegetable and non sugar-sweetened drink products at community sporting clubs: a randomised trial
  154. Improving the implementation of responsible alcohol management practices by community sporting clubs: A randomised controlled trial
  155. Child physical activity levels and associations with modifiable characteristics in centre-based childcare
  156. Educational interventions are effective in treating childhood obesity: (PEDro synthesis)
  157. Benefits of policy support of a healthy eating initiative in schools
  158. Identifying Otolaryngology Systematic Review Research Gaps
  159. Effect of telephone follow-up on retention and balance in an alcohol intervention trial
  160. Adoption of obesity prevention policies and practices by Australian primary schools: 2006 to 2013
  161. Do childcare services provide foods in line with the 2013 Australian Dietary guidelines? A cross-sectional study
  162. A cluster randomised controlled trial of a telephone-based intervention targeting the home food environment of preschoolers (The Healthy HabitsTrial): the effect on parent fruit and vegetable consumption
  163. Care Provision to Prevent Chronic Disease by Community Mental Health Clinicians
  164. Is alcohol and community sport a good mix? Alcohol management, consumption and social capital in community sports clubs
  165. Prevalence of unhealthy alcohol use in hospital outpatients
  166. Alcohol management practices in community football clubs: Association with risky drinking at the club and overall hazardous alcohol consumption
  167. A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase the implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools: study protocol
  168. Increasing Preventive Care by Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Clinicians
  169. The impact of a hypothetical designated driver program on intended alcohol-related behavior: an RCT
  170. School-based obesity prevention interventions: Practicalities and considerations
  171. Improving adolescent mental health and resilience through a resilience-based intervention in schools: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  172. Translation of tobacco control programs in schools: findings from a rapid review of systematic reviews of implementation and dissemination interventions
  173. Public, official, and industry submissions on a Bill to increase the alcohol minimum purchasing age: A critical analysis
  174. Validity of a measure to assess healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in Australian childcare services
  175. A systematic review and meta-analysis of whole of community interventions to prevent excessive population weight gain
  176. Systematic review of universal school-based resilience interventions targeting adolescent tobacco, alcohol or illicit drug use: review protocol
  177. Increasing the scale and adoption of population health interventions: experiences and perspectives of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers
  178. A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to facilitate the implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in childcare services
  179. Computer-tailored interventions to facilitate health behavioural change
  180. Exploring the pragmatic and explanatory study design on outcomes of systematic reviews of public health interventions: a case study on obesity prevention trials
  181. The effect of energy and traffic light labelling on parent and child fast food selection: a randomised controlled trial
  182. Who is responsible for selecting children's fast food meals, and what impact does this have on energy content of the selected meals?
  183. Randomized controlled trial of a telephone-based intervention for child fruit and vegetable intake: long-term follow-up
  184. An implementation intervention to encourage healthy eating in centre-based child-care services: impact of the Good for Kids Good for Life programme
  185. Enhancing nutritional environments through access to fruit and vegetables in schools and homes among children and youth: a systematic review
  186. A cluster randomized trial of a multi-level intervention, delivered by service staff, to increase physical activity of children attending center-based childcare
  187. Evaluating the efficacy of an integrated smoking cessation intervention for mental health patients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  188. A randomised controlled trial of an active telephone-based recruitment strategy to increase childcare-service staff attendance at a physical activity and nutrition training workshop
  189. Physical activity promotion in primary care has a sustained influence on activity levels of sedentary adults: Table 1
  190. Alcohol consumption and sport: a cross-sectional study of alcohol management practices associated with at-risk alcohol consumption at community football clubs
  191. Experimental investigation of parents and their children's social interaction intentions towards obese children
  192. Pre-service primary school teachers' experiences of physical education
  193. The delivery of preventive care to clients of community health services
  194. A detailed explanation and protocol of 'Physical Activity 4 Everyone' school-based trial | Efficacy
  195. Harnessing the power of advertising to prevent childhood obesity
  196. A randomised controlled trial and mediation analysis of the ‘Healthy Habits’, telephone-based dietary intervention for preschool children
  197. Effects of Introductory Information on Self-Reported Health Behavior
  198. Validity of a self-report survey tool measuring the nutrition and physical activity environment of primary schools
  199. A cluster randomised trial of a school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use in secondary school students: study protocol
  200. Strengthening the rigour of population-wide, community-based obesity prevention evaluations
  201. Increasing the use of preventative health services to promote healthy eating, physical activity and weight management: the acceptability and potential effectiveness of a proactive telemarketing approach
  202. Co-occurrence of Obesogenic Risk Factors Among Adolescents
  203. Effectiveness of a multi-strategy intervention in increasing the implementation of vegetable and fruit breaks by Australian primary schools: a non-randomized controlled trial
  204. Acceptability of proactive telephone recruitment to a telephone support service to encourage healthy eating, physical activity and weight loss
  205. A cluster randomized controlled trial of a telephone-based parent intervention to increase preschoolers’ fruit and vegetable consumption
  206. Addressing alcohol use in community sports clubs: attitudes of club representatives
  207. Impact of a population based intervention to increase the adoption of multiple physical activity practices in centre based childcare services: a quasi experimental, effectiveness study
  208. Interventions in sports settings to reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm: a systematic review protocol
  209. Associations between characteristics of the home food environment and fruit and vegetable intake in preschool children: A cross-sectional study
  210. Demographic, Smoking, and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Smoking Cessation Care Provided to Patients Preparing for Surgery
  211. The effectiveness of an intervention in increasing community health clinician provision of preventive care: a study protocol of a non-randomised, multiple-baseline trial
  212. Alcohol consumption and intoxication among people involved in police-recorded incidents of violence and disorder in non-metropolitan New South Wales
  213. A cluster randomised controlled trial of a comprehensive accreditation intervention to reduce alcohol consumption at community sports clubs: study protocol
  214. A pilot study of a telephone-based parental intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in 3–5-year-old children
  215. Vegetable and fruit breaks in Australian primary schools: prevalence, attitudes, barriers and implementation strategies
  216. Treating nicotine dependence in mental health hospitals
  217. Physical activity policies and practices of childcare centres in Australia
  218. Prevalence and socio-demographic associations of overweight and obesity among children attending child-care services in rural and regional Australia
  219. Intelligent obesity interventions using Smartphones
  220. Parental influences on child physical activity and screen viewing time: a population based study
  221. A cluster randomised trial to evaluate a physical activity intervention among 3-5 year old children attending long day care services: study protocol
  222. Engaging parents in child obesity prevention: Support preferences of parents
  223. A cluster randomised trial of a telephone-based intervention for parents to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in their 3- to 5-year-old children: study protocol
  224. How useful are systematic reviews of child obesity interventions?
  225. Obtaining active parental consent for school-based research: a guide for researchers
  226. Providing comprehensive smoking cessation care to surgical patients: The case for computers
  227. Smoke-free hospitals: an opportunity for public health
  228. Feasibility, acceptability, and cost of referring surgical patients for postdischarge cessation support from a quitline
  229. Reporting of adverse events in systematic reviews can be improved: survey results
  230. Helping hospital patients quit: What the evidence supports and what guidelines recommend
  231. Smoke-free licensed premises: what will be the broader public health benefits?
  232. Trends in sudden infant death syndrome in Australia from 1980 to 2002
  233. Smoking and surgery: an opportunity for health improvement
  234. Computerized assessment of surgical patients for tobacco use: accuracy and acceptability
  235. Increasing smoking cessation care in a preoperative clinic: a randomized controlled trial
  236. A programme for reducing smoking in pre-operative surgical patients: randomised controlled trial
  237. Managing nicotine dependence in NSW hospital patients
  238. Smoking cessation interventions for in-patients: a selective review with recommendations for hospital-based health professionals