Hospital Intervention to Reduce Overweight with Educational Reinforcement after Discharge: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity and overweight affect more than one-third of the world's population and pose a major public health problem.

Objective

To evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on dietary habits and physical exercise in patients with overweight admitted to departments of internal medicine, comprising a pre-discharge educational session with follow-up and reinforcement by telephone at 3, 6, and, 12 months post-discharge. Outcome variables were weight, systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), hospital readmissions, emergency department visits, and death.

Method

A randomized experimental study with a control group was performed in hospitalized non-diabetic adults aged ≥18 years with body mass index (BMI)

SUBMITTER: Herrera-Espineira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9227976 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature