Effect and efficacy of lifestyle interventions as secondary prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Improvements in health behaviour are often recommended as part of secondary prevention in patients with stroke and transient ischaemic attack. However, there is a lack of knowledge as to how this is applied in clinical practice.

Aim

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we examined the effect of counselling or educational intervention directed at individual or multiple behavioural risk factors on blood pressure and other reported outcomes.

Methods

PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science were systematically searched. Meta-analyses were conducted on all outcome measures if appropriate. A qualitative analysis of the content of the interventions was conducted to review which elements the interventions consisted of.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Liljehult J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540464 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature