Social network interventions for health behaviours and outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been a growing interest in understanding the effects of social networks on health-related behaviour, with a particular backdrop being the emerging prominence of complexity or systems science in public health. Social network interventions specifically use or alter the characteristics of social networks to generate, accelerate, or maintain health behaviours. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate health behaviour outcomes of social network interventions.

Methods and findings

We searched eight databases and two trial registries from 1990 to May 28, 2019, for English-language reports of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and before-and-after studies investigating social network interventions for health behaviours and outcomes. Tri

SUBMITTER: Hunter RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6719831 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature