Measures for promoting interventions of community health workers for overweight or obese adults and its effect evaluation
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2017.03.011
- VernacularTitle:促进社区医护人员干预成人超重或肥胖的措施及效果评价
- Author:
Wenzhe HUA
1
;
Qing LU
;
Daqiao ZHU
Author Information
1. 第二军医大学护理学院
- Keywords:
Medical staff;
Body weight;
Overweight;
Obesity
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2017;23(3):336-340
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To generalize and summarize the interventions of community health workers for overweight or obese adults and its effect evaluation,so as to provide references for advancing the work of adult weight management.Methods Literatures published in PubMed,CINAHL,EMBASE,Elsevier,VIP, Wanfang data from 1996 to March 2016 were retrieved. The retrieval formula was (facilitate OR promote OR improve OR influence OR intervene) AND (nurses OR physicians OR doctors OR health professionals OR medical staff) AND (obesity OR overweight OR weight OR body).Results A total of 13 papers were included involving 11 original researches and 2 systematic reviews. Those papers prompted that the process of weight management carried out by medical staff could be intervened from the level of doctors (training,setting up cues), patients (perfecting and handing out health education material),organization (multi-department cooperation, enhancing supervision) to improve the level and behavior of weight management carried out by medical staff. The indicators of effect evaluation included medical staff indicators (knowledge,skills,behaviors,attitudes and beliefs of weight management) and patient indicators (clinical indexes,health behaviors,attitudes,beliefs). Conclusions The adult weight management can be enhanced by multi-level intervention. At the same time, the intervention effect can be reflected comprehensively by synthesizing evaluation indicators in many aspects.
