Summary:
In patients with type 2 diabetes, a lifestyle-based health promotion intervention significantly improved health behaviours and reduced irrational health beliefs and dysfunctional eating behaviours compared to a control group receiving no treatment, though it was associated with no reported side effects.
| PICO | Description |
|---|---|
| Population | Adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (total n=90), selected through convenience sampling and randomized into groups. |
| Intervention | Eight 90-minute sessions of a lifestyle-based health promotion intervention delivered to the experimental group. |
| Comparison | A control group (n=45) that did not receive any form of treatment or intervention. |
| Outcome | The intervention group demonstrated significant improvements in health-promoting behaviours and reductions in irrational health beliefs and maladaptive eating behaviours at post-test and 3-month follow-up, compared to the control group (P < .01). |
Source: Mohammad Shayan Kolahdouzan, et al. “The effect of lifestyle-based health promotion intervention on health behaviour, irrational heath beliefs, and eating behaviour of patients with type 2 diabetes.” Read article here.
