Effectiveness of Health Education Interventions on Modifying Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Corresponding Author: Radwan NM, Department of Clinical Education, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia, Tel: 00966540261707, Email: radwan.n.m@gmail.comReceived Date: Jul 03, 2019 / Accepted Date: Oct 26, 2019 / Published Date: Nov 01, 2019
Citation: Radwan NM, Al-Khashan HM, Alamri FA, Kabbash E, Abu-Elenin MM, et al. (2019) Effectiveness of Health Education Interventions on Modifying Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Community Med Health Educ 9:669
Copyright: © 2019 Radwan NM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background: Cardiovascular disease is linked to certain risk behaviours and health education has become the most commonly used measure for modifying these risk behaviours.
Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of health education interventions on modifying cardiovascular diseaserisk factors.
Search methods: We searched the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE and EMBASE during the past twenty years.
Selection criteria: We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on health education interventions aimed atmodifying cardiovascular diseases risk factors.
Conclusion: Wellbeing instruction intercessions could be powerful in changing frame of mind of individuals towardutilization of solid eating regimen, performing physical action and in quitting smoking. However, it is not effective inreducing body weight, blood pressure and blood sugar.