Interventions and Modifiers of Well-Being and Their Impact

1st Edition - May 15, 2026
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Editors: Colin R. Martin, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood Patel, Rajkumar Rajendram
Language: English

The Scientific Basis of Well-being: Modifiers and Treatments comprises of three books that examines the interlink between physical and emotional well-being. This volume, Inter… Read more

The Scientific Basis of Well-being: Modifiers and Treatments comprises of three books that examines the interlink between physical and emotional well-being. This volume, Interventions and Modifiers of Well-Being and Their Impact is organized into three distinct sections. The first section defines the significance of well-being and its applications to health. The second section reviews the various positive modifier of well-being, including yoga, meditation, art, and dance. The third section outlines the potential negative modifiers including obesity, addiction, and use of social media. Each chapter provides case studies and clinical examples of applications. Written by international experts in the field, this book will be the single source researchers and clinicians understand and implement modifiers to help improve well-being.

Section 1: Introductory Chapters, Correlates and Setting the Scene

1. The well-being of parents in households with afflicted children

2. Epidemiological perspectives linking quality of life measures and all-cause mortality

3. Mental health of people attending non-psychiatric outpatient clinics

Section 2: Positive Modifiers of Well-Being

4. The effects of physiotherapy and rehabilitation on measures of well-being

5. Nutrition and its contribution to well-being: Quality of life and beyond

6. Meditation and well-being: applications to metabolic risk factors

7. Dance practices and impact on well-being: alleviating effects of trauma

8. Dance therapy and dance for health and their impact on well-being in psychiatric and neurological disorders

9. Educating for health: The role of cardiac rehabilitation in modifying well-being

10. Medicinal plants and applications to well-being

11. Virtual reality usage to improve well-being and quality of life

12. It’s About Time: Promoting Mental Health Through the Lens of the Time-Use Epidemiology Framework

13. Brief psychological interventions to increase well-being

14. Yoga for Well-Being and Positive Embodiment: A Focus on Eating Disorders

15. Exploring a relationship with the Integrated approach of Yoga therapy among prediabetics

16. Art therapy and well-being: managing pain

17. Massage and impact on well-being: impact on pelvic pain

Section 3: Negative or Harmful Modifiers of Well-Being

18. Well-being in the hospital setting: From emergency department to discharge

19. Oral health neglect as a silent modifier of overall wellness

20. Sarcopenia and its negative impact on well-being

21. Measures of well-being in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

22. Acquired brain injury and well-being

23. Cyberchondria as a negative influence on well-being

24. Olfactory disorders and reduced measures of well-being

25. Measures of well-being in the elderly and links with frailty

26. Measures of well-being and quality-of-life domains in type 2 diabetes

27. Bone fractures and quality of life measures

28. Well-being and Parkinson's Disease

Section 4: Resources

29. Resources for the study and investigation of the biology of well being

Colin R. Martin

Colin R. Martin RN, BSc, MSc, PhD, MBA, YCAP, FHEA, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, C.Sci is Professor of Clinical Psychobiology and Applied Psychoneuroimmunology and Clinical Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Suffolk, UK. He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. He also trained in analytical biochemistry, this aspect reflecting the psychobiological focus of much of his research within mental health. He has published or has in press well over 300 research papers and book chapters. He is a keen book author and editor having written and/or edited more than 50 books. These outputs include the prophetic insight into the treatment of neurological disease, Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition (2011), Nanomedicine and the Nervous System (2012), Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants in Neurological Disease (2020), Zika Virus Impact, Diagnosis, Control and Models (2021), Factors Affecting Neurodevelopment: Genetics, Neurology, Behavior and Diet (2021), Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury (2022), The Neurobiology, Physiology, and Psychology of Pain (2022) and The Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging (2023). Professor Martin is particularly interested in all aspects of the relationship between underlying physiological substrates and behavior, particularly in how these relationships manifest in both acute and chronic psychiatric disorder. He has published original research germane to significant mental health disorders including the areas of schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, alcohol and drug dependency, high secure forensic mental health and personality disorder. He has a keen interest in the impact of postviral illness and is actively involved in clinical research post-Covid pandemic and in particular, the impact of Long Covid on psychological, neurological, physiological and social functioning. He is involved in collaborative International research with many European and Non-European countries.

Affiliations and expertise

Visiting Professor of Perinatal Wellbeing, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

Victor R. Preedy

Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRSC, FRCPath graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. After gaining his University of London PhD, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was later awarded his second doctorate (DSc), for his contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King’s College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King’s College London. He has Honorary Professorships at the University of Hull, and the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy was the Founding Director and then long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Medicine. He carried out research when attached to the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and edited books.

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Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, UK; Visiting Professor, University of Hull, UK

Vinood Patel

Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is currently Professor in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of liver disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress in neurological disorders and iron dysregulation in diabetes. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to the use or investigation of active agents or components. These books include The Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and Epigenetics, Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition, Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Toxicology: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Molecular Nutrition: Vitamins, The Neuroscience of Pain, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He is Editor of the ten-volume series Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, University Westminster, UK

Rajkumar Rajendram

Dr Rajkumar Rajendram is a clinician scientist with a focus on internal medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care and peri-operative medicine. He graduated with distinctions from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas Medical School, King’s College London in 2001. As an undergraduate he was awarded several prizes, merits and distinctions in pre-clinical and clinical subjects.

Dr Rajendram began his post-graduate medical training in general medicine and intensive care in Oxford. He attained membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 2004 and completed specialist training in acute and general medicine in Oxford in 2010. Dr Rajendram subsequently practiced as a Consultant in Acute General Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Dr Rajendram also trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in London and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) in 2009. He completed advanced training in regional anaesthesia and intensive care. He was awarded a fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM) in 2013 and obtained the European diploma of intensive care medicine (EDIC) in 2014. He then moved to the Royal Free London Hospitals as a Consultant in Intensive Care, Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine. He has been a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin) and the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP Lond) since 2017 and 2019 respectively. He is currently a Consultant in Internal Medicine at King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Heath Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dr Rajendram’s focus on improving outcomes from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has involved research on point of care ultrasound and phenotypes of COVID-19. Dr Rajendram also recognises that nutritional support is a fundamental aspect of medical care. This is particularly important for patients with COVID-19. As a clinician scientist he has therefore devoted significant time and effort into nutritional science research and education. He is an affiliated member of the Nutritional Sciences Research Division of King’s College London and has published over 400 textbook chapters, review articles, peer-reviewed papers and abstracts.

Affiliations and expertise

Consultant, Medical Protocol Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Heath Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Colin R. Martin

Victor R. Preedy

Vinood Patel

Rajkumar Rajendram