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Pro-Change Receives NIH Commercialization Assistance
Pro-Change is one of 80 Small Business Innovation Research grant recipients to qualify for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CommercializationAssistance Program (CAP). Seasoned companies like Pro-Change, with more established commercialization experience, but facing complex business strategic challenges, are eligible to receive CAP guidance. Emerging companies are also eligible. Pro-Change...
Pro-Change’s Founder is in the Top 10 of Eminent Clincal Psychologists
South Kingstown, RI James O. Prochaska, PhD, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc.'s founder, has had impacts in the field that place him in the top 10 most eminent clinical psychologists in the past 70 years. A list of 200 psychologists across 16 specialties were identified in the American Psychological Association's (APA) Archives of Scientific Psychology journal (Diener et al. 2014) as having the...
Pro-Change’s Algorithms are now Integrated into Breakthrough Health & Wellness
South Kingstown, RI. (October 7, 2014) Breakthrough Health & Wellness Solutions, Inc. (Breakthrough) is now using Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc.'s evidence-based weight management staging measures to further individualize their fitness and weight loss offering, Online Boot Camp. Integration of the staging measures will allow Breakthrough to expand their patented interval training- based...
Pro-Change Receives NIDA SBIR Contract
South Kingstown, RI. (August 13, 2014) Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. has received its first Small Business Innovation Research Contract from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Phase I contract was awarded for the topic "Technological Tools to Facilitate Implementation of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Interventions among the Military." The project aims not only to...
Dr. Sara Johnson Talks About Coaction, Culture, and Behavior Change
South Kingstown, RI. (July 9, 2014) - In the July/August 2014 issue of the Health Promotion Practitioner, Sara Johnson, Ph.D., Senior Vice President at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is interviewed by Paul Terry, Ph.D., EVP and Chief Science Officer at StayWell Health Management. Dr. Terry writes that one of the most transformative research areas for health promotion relates to "coaction" -...
Pro-Change’s Tailored Text Messaging Program Enhancement Receives Rave Reviews
South Kingstown, RI. (June 12, 2014) - As part of a larger trial, U. S. Veterans who received the full Pro-Change Smoking Cessation Program, plus the new text messaging enhancement, were asked what they liked most about the program. The overwhelming majority indicated that the text messaging they received was one of the program's highlights; with 72% indicating that the texts helped move them...
Pro-Change Partners with VAL Health Rewards to Make Care New England “Healthy Together”
South Kingstown, RI. (June 2, 2014) - On May 19th, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. and VAL Health Rewards launched the Healthy Together program at Care New England Health System (CNE). Healthy Together is designed to help entire families adopt regular exercise and healthy eating habits. Employees of CNE and their families will have access to Pro-Change's award-winning digital coaching programs...
Pro-Change Programs are Part of a Collaborative Grant for Alaska Native Men and Women
South Kingstown, RI. (May 21, 2014) - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year research project grant (R01) to study the effect of disease prevention counseling delivered via telemedicine within rural villages in the Bristol Bay Area of Alaska. Participants will be Alaska Native men and women who smoke cigarettes and have at least...
Pro-Change’s Kerry Evers Invited Speaker at The HxRefactored Conference
South Kingstown, RI. (May 7, 2014) - Kerry Evers, PhD, Senior Vice President at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., has been invited to present at the HxRefactored Conference in Brooklyn, NY, on how the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) theory can be incorporated into the latest technology. The theme of the May 13-14, 2014 Conference is HxRefactored: Bringing Designers and...
Pro-Change Chairing Symposium on the Use of Mobile Health with Special Populations at The Society of Behavioral Medicine
South Kingstown, RI. (April 17, 2014) -Drs. Leanne Mauriello and Kerry Evers will be presenting as part of a Symposium, "The Use of mHealth with Special Populations: Theory, Research and Practice" at the 35th annual meeting and scientific sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 25th. Dr.Mauriello's presentation, "Using mHealth to Deliver Behavior...