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PHLAME: Promoting Healthy Living: Assessing More Effects.
Regular physical activity and a healthy diet can prevent and treat illnesses and prolong life, yet most
Americans do neither. This proposal, PHLAME II (Promoting Healthy Living: Assessing More Effects),
extends our original Behavior Change Consortium, NIH-funded study PHLAME (Promoting Healthy
Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects). With PHLAME II, we make optimal use of the resources expended
with PHLAME to continue to serially assess our fire fighter participants, and further advance the two
interventions (the team-centered, peer led, scripted TEAM curriculum and one-on-one motivational
interviewing (MI) for health promotion) shown to significantly promote participants' healthy nutrition and
physical activity habits, albeit by different mechanisms. The proposal's three primary components are 1)
serial assessment and analyses of the original PHLAME participants' health behaviors, using advanced
statistical techniques to compare the original three groups, define mediators of durability and lapses for
immediate and longer-term outcomes and identify for whom and under what conditions interventions appear
most effective; 2) analyses of previously taped motivational interviews, from a population ideally suited to
define determinants of effective MI for health ppromotion; and 3) dissemination of the PHLAME TEAM
program in distant real-world sites, with attention to individual outcomes and program implementation, and
with aid of a web-based infrastructure and partnering with national organizations of fire fighters. The
PHLAME investigator team will continue for PHLAME II, and the group greatly benefits from their PHLAME
experience; established credibility with their subjects; predefined protocols; inplace techniques for
streamlining data management; and strong ties among researchers, MI and statistical collaborators and
recently established qualitative consultants. Althought PHLAME II involves the simultaneous conduct of
different projects, we have confidence that the current research team, our existing lines of communication
and demonstrated willigness to collaborate and shift responsibilities, when needed, will allow our success in
adhering to the proposed timeline and achieving PHAME II's study AIMS. We welcome the opportunity to
continue our collaborations with other health promotion researchers in address compelling questions and
advancing these critical aspects of our nation's health.
Dr. Diane Elliot of Oregon Health Sciences University is the Principal Investigator of this project. Information on the PHLAME program can be obtained from:
Oregon Health & Science University
Div. of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road CR110
Portland, OR 97239-3098
Director : David P. MacKinnon, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
PO Box 871104
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1104
Tel: 480/727-6126
Fax: 480/727-6176
Last modified: October 27, 2006
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