Assess your Lifestyle
Background
Did you ever notice that its is always hard to keep up with a diet? Or a resolution to do more exercise? Or a new resolution of stopping smoking or drinking? It took me many years to realize that the main reason why people don't manage to maintain these healthy behaviors is because they're going against the tide. Once you understand that all these healthy behaviors are linked to one another, you realize that it is much easier to change all of them together than changing them one by one.
That's when I decided to start studying to take my board exam of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine to become certified as a Lifestyle Medicine professional. That would allow me to introduce this in my teachings and raise awareness around me. I won't lie to you: I failed the first time. So I took it again, and I finally obtained my Board certification. Did it change anything? Not really. I just had one more certificate hanged out on my wall. But that's not what I wanted. I wanted to raise awareness and make impact in the society.
The "Assess your Lifestyle" research project is a quiz with feedback that allows people to assess their lifestyle. Together with the talented Christine Gaskell, we designed and developed this interactive quiz.
The feedbacks given in this quiz are all evidence based and Ethical Committee at WCMQ have approved the launch of this study. People can benefit from this quiz by assessing various area of their lifestyle: nutrition, physical activity, mental health, drugs addiction, connectedness.
Using this QUIZ, you can ASSESS your Lifestyle, GET FEEDBACK based on international recommendations and decide at the end whether you want or not to submit your anonymous answers for Research purposes.
This is the first survey that aims at characterizing the lifestyle of the population in Qatar, so we can compare it to other countries, all this by raising awareness! The project is still ongoing.
Did you ever notice that its is always hard to keep up with a diet? Or a resolution to do more exercise? Or a new resolution of stopping smoking or drinking? It took me many years to realize that the main reason why people don't manage to maintain these healthy behaviors is because they're going against the tide. Once you understand that all these healthy behaviors are linked to one another, you realize that it is much easier to change all of them together than changing them one by one.
That's when I decided to start studying to take my board exam of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine to become certified as a Lifestyle Medicine professional. That would allow me to introduce this in my teachings and raise awareness around me. I won't lie to you: I failed the first time. So I took it again, and I finally obtained my Board certification. Did it change anything? Not really. I just had one more certificate hanged out on my wall. But that's not what I wanted. I wanted to raise awareness and make impact in the society.
The "Assess your Lifestyle" research project is a quiz with feedback that allows people to assess their lifestyle. Together with the talented Christine Gaskell, we designed and developed this interactive quiz.
The feedbacks given in this quiz are all evidence based and Ethical Committee at WCMQ have approved the launch of this study. People can benefit from this quiz by assessing various area of their lifestyle: nutrition, physical activity, mental health, drugs addiction, connectedness.
Using this QUIZ, you can ASSESS your Lifestyle, GET FEEDBACK based on international recommendations and decide at the end whether you want or not to submit your anonymous answers for Research purposes.
This is the first survey that aims at characterizing the lifestyle of the population in Qatar, so we can compare it to other countries, all this by raising awareness! The project is still ongoing.
