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Preben Bendtsen

Professor Emeritus

My research is focusing on life style intervention for individuals with unhealthy lifestyles concerning alcohol, tobacco, physical activity and diet habits.

Innovative Lifestyle Interventions

The majority of those diseases that we treat today in health care could be avoided with a more healthy life style. Thus, a great majority of heart diseases, 30 % of all cancers and most of diabetes type 2 could be avoided by healthy life styles.

 

My research is focusing on life style intervention for individuals with unhealthy life styles concerning alcohol, tobacco, physical activity and diet habits.

I am developing Internet based interventions to be used in foremost primary health care. The basic concept that I have developed is a number of health test to be performed on a web site, that gives the individual a personalised feedback. Also, more extended interventions lasting up to 12 weeks using SMS as the mode of delivery is something that I am doing research upon.

The aim of the research is to increase the implementation in routine health care getting the staff to refer patients to the various internet based life style interventions we have developed. 

About me

Field of Teaching

I teach mainly at the Medical program

 

Publications

2026

Elizabeth S. Collier, Marie Lof, Preben Bendtsen, Joel Crawford, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Feasibility of delivering a digital multiple health behaviour intervention via a home-telemonitoring system: engagement, outcomes, and user experiences BMC Research Notes, Vol. 19, Article 279 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-026-07915-2
Joel Crawford, Katarina Åsberg, Jenny Blomqvist, Oskar Lundgren, Hanna Henriksson, Pontus Henriksson, Preben Bendtsen, Marie Löf, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Effectiveness of the Components of a Digital Multiple Health Behavior Change Intervention Among Individuals Seeking Help Online (Coach): Factorial Randomized Trial JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, Vol. 28, Article e88881 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/88881
Katarina Åsberg, Oskar Lundgren, Hanna Olsson, Pontus Henriksson, Ann Catrine Eldh, Preben Bendtsen, Marie Löf, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Effectiveness of the Components of a Digital Multiple Health Behavior Intervention Among University Students (Buddy): Factorial Randomized Trial Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 28, Article e88884 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/88884
Joel Crawford, Jenny Blomqvist, Katarina Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Preben Bendtsen, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Individualized Treatment Effects of a Digital Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Individuals Looking Online for Help: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial JMIR mhealth and uhealth, Vol. 14, Article e63578 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/63578

2025

Elizabeth S. Collier, Elin Karlsson, Joel Crawford, Preben Bendtsen, Marcus Bendtsen (2025) Navigating behavioural change: insights from prompts self-authored by individuals during a digital multiple health behaviour intervention trial Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 384, Article 118599 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118599

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