The role of the family in health promotion: a scoping review of models and mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: The family is an important contributor to the cultural conditions that support health. Current challenges in family health promotion interventions include programme design that is not always guided by theory and change mechanisms. Multifaceted programmes also make it hard to examine what works for whom, given different family roles and the range of lifestyle behaviour and mechanisms examined within diverse conceptual frameworks and cultures. We performed a scoping review on the heterogeneous literature to map and categorize the models and mechanisms by which a family may promote health behaviours among its members. We searched five electronic databases and grey literature up to 2020. Publications were included if they examined health-promoting behaviours, influences at the family level, an

SUBMITTER: Ho YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9673498 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature