PURPOSE: Web-based interventions offer low cost and practical strategies to promote self-care for adult individuals with various health conditions and status issues around the globe. The purpose of this review was to summarize the current recent literature in  examining  the  effectiveness  of  web-based  interventions  to  promote  healthy lifestyles related to anthropometric measurements in adult individuals with various health conditions and status.
DESIGN: A systematic review of literature was conducted.   Search of the literature was employed to web-based intervention studies in refereed journals written in the English  language.  The  databases  searched  were  PubMed,  Ovid  MEDLINE, CINAHL,  and  Google  Scholar,  with  a  search  period  of  2004-2014.In addition to these databases, a manual search was also used. 
METHODS: All studies were examined by three reviewers for eligibility using the Jadad scoring  system.Thirteen randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies (n=13)  met criteria in this review and revealed significant associations between the utilization of web-based health promotion interventions on anthropometric measurements in adult populations with health related conditions.
FINDINGS: Seven  studies  reported  overall  positive  changes  in  the  participants' anthropometric measurements at the completion of each study. Four out of seven studies reported that adult participants' in the intervention groups had greater weight loss  as  compared  to  the  control  groups.  In  addition,  one  study  out  of  the  seven studies reported a larger reduction in BMI of the participants in the intervention group.Two studies out of 13 studies reported positive changes in BMI, waist circumference,body fat, and waist-hip-ratio in the control groups. 
CONCLUSIONS:The outcomes from this review may prove useful information of effectiveness of web-based interventions relative to physiological outcomes such as anthropometric measurements. These programs can inform transformative practice and improvement of global health.  

Human ; Male ; Female ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; Waist-hip Ratio ; Waist Circumference ; Global Health ; Health Promotion ; Adipose Tissue ; Healthy Lifestyle