Predictors of Progressing Toward Lifestyle Change Among Participants of an Interprofessional Lifestyle Medicine Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Therapeutic lifestyle change can be challenging, and not every attempt is successful.

Purpose

To identify predictors of making progress toward lifestyle change among patients who participate in a lifestyle medicine program.

Methods

This was a single-center, retrospective cohort study of 205 adults who enrolled in a goal-directed, individualized, interprofessional lifestyle medicine program. The primary outcome was whether, by the end of participation with the program, a patient reported making progress toward lifestyle change. Candidate predictors included sociodemographic, psychological, and health-related variables.

Results

Among 205 patients (median (IQR) age 58 (44-66) years, 164 (80%) female), 93 (45%) made progress toward lifestyle change durin

SUBMITTER: Cheng AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11507295 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature