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Pro-Change Partners with McGraw-Hill Higher Education to Distribute liveWell Program
South Kingstown, RI - September 18, 2013. Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is now licensing its liveWell program to McGraw-Hill Higher Education for distribution to college and university students as an adjunct to their textbooks. liveWell: A Healthy Foundation for Life is an innovative online multimedia program designed to help college students improve their well-being by exercising regularly,...
Pro-Change and Cooper Consulting Partners to Partner, Improve Corporate Health
Partnership adds renowned behavior change model to Cooper Consulting Partners' Leading a Fit Life Program South Kingstown, RI - September 6, 2013. Pro-Change, an internationally-recognized behavior change company and Cooper Consulting Partners, a health management consultancy, part of Cooper Aerobics, has announced a partnership that will further empower businesses and their employees to make...
Pro-Change’s Smoking Cessation Program Also Effective for Psychiatric Patients
South Kingstown, RI - August 21, 2013. HealthDay News recently reported the results of a new study from the American Journal of Public Health (http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301403). The study showed that psychiatric patients who participated in Pro-Change Behavior System's individually tailored smoking cessation program while they were hospitalized for treatment of a...
Pro-Change’s CEO Given Achievement Award by Providence Business News
South Kingstown, RI - August 8, 2013. Janice M. Prochaska, PhD, President and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., was one of twelve women who received an Achievement Award at the 5th Annual Providence Business News Business Women's Awards luncheon. The event spotlighted twelve talented and dedicated women working in southeastern New England. Prochaska was recognized for being well ahead of...
Pro-Change’s Drs. Prochaska Featured in Health Literacy’s 100th Podcast
South Kingstown, RI - August 1, 2013. Health Literacy Out Loud's 100th podcast, titled "Stages of Change and Health Communication," went live July 30, 2013. In the podcast, James O. Prochaska, PhD, Founder of Pro-Change and Janice M. Prochaska, President & CEO talk with Helen Osborne about: What the Stages of Change model is and how it got started Why the Stages of Change model is relevant...
Pro-Change’s Comments on the Rand Study “Do Wellness Programs Work?”
South Kingstown, RI - June 27, 2013. A growing number of sources are suggesting that wellness programs do not work. Can we answer in the affirmative that wellness programs do work? The Rand Report (http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR254.html) clearly indicates that such a sweeping claim cannot be supported. But why would one assume that such a heterogeneous field - filled all too often...
Pro-Change, Care New England, and VAL Health to Pilot an Innovative Smoking Cessation Program
South Kingstown, RI - June 12, 2013. This month, Care New England will launch a pilot of an innovative smoking cessation program for its health plan members. The program integrates Pro-Change's evidence-based behavior change program, including individually tailored text messages with VAL Health's unique approach to incentives. Pro-Change's Smoking Cessation Program...
Pro-Change’s CEO Given Achievement Award by Providence Business News
South Kingstown, RI - June 5, 2013. Janice M. Prochaska, PhD, President and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., was one of twelve women who received an Achievement Award at the 5th Annual Providence Business News Business Women's Awards luncheon. The event spotlighted twelve talented and dedicated women working in southeastern New England. Prochaska was recognized for being well ahead of...
Pro-Change’s Lessons Learned on Patient Engagement
South Kingstown, RI - May 31, 2013. From research gleaned through 30 population-based randomized clinical trials, Pro-Change has found that there are six phases and five factors on a continuum of patient engagement. The six phases of patient engagement are: REACH → RECRUIT → RETAIN → PROGRESS → SUCCESS → SUSTAIN The five factors that drive those phases are: proactivity, stage of change,...
Pro-Change At Cutting Edge of Multiple Behavior Change Research: Plays Key Role in Translational Behavioral Medicine Journal’s Special Section
South Kingstown, RI - May 1, 2013. Kerry E. Evers, PhD, Senior Vice President at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is the Co-Editor of the Special Section Multiple Health Behavior Change in the latest issue (March 2013) of the Translational Behavioral Medicine Journal: Practice, Policy, and Research. In her editorial, Dr. Evers comments on the "Advances in Multiple Health Behavior Change...