A Scoping Review of Positive Lifestyle and Wellness Interventions to Inform the Development of a Comprehensive Health Promotion Program: “HealthPro”

Stephanie A.P. Schuette, Evelyn Cordero, Katherine Slosburg, Elizabeth L. Addington, David Victorson*

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Abstract

Background. Lifestyle medicine has emerged as a transformational force in mainstream health care. Numerous health promotion and wellness programs have been created to facilitate the adoption of increased positive, modifiable health behaviors to prevent and lessen the effects of chronic disease. This article provides a scoping review of available health promotion interventions that focus on healthy adult populations in the past 10 years. Methods. We conducted a scoping review of the literature searching for health promotion interventions in the past 10 years. Interventions were limited to those conducted among healthy adults that offered a face-to-face, group-based format, with positive results on one or more health outcomes. We then developed a new health promotion intervention that draws on multiple components of included interventions. Results. Fifty-eight articles met our inclusion criteria. Physical activity was the primary focus of a majority (N = 47) of articles, followed by diet/nutrition (N = 40) and coping/social support (N = 40). Conclusions. Efficacious health promotion interventions are critical to address the prevention of chronic disease by addressing modifiable risk factors such as exercise, nutrition, stress, and coping. A new intervention, discussed is this article, provides a comprehensive approaches to health behavior change and may be adapted for future research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)336-346
Number of pages11
JournalAmerican Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Volume13
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2019

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is supported in part by the John and Carol Walter Center for Urological Health, NorthShore University Health System; an NIH/NCI training Grant CA193193; and an NIH R01 Grant R01 CA19333102. AJLM

Keywords

  • diet
  • health behavior change
  • health promotion
  • lifestyle interventions
  • physical activity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Health Policy
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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