Evidence-based implementation of lifestyle medicine in healthcare practice: a research agenda

  1. Rimke C. Vos
  2. Liesbeth van Osch
  3. Jolanda van Bilsen
  4. Marjo Knapen
  5. Niels Henrik Chavannes
  6. Andrea W.M. Evers
  7. Maria Hopmann
  8. Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong
  9. Bart Kiemeney
  10. Suzan Wopereis
  11. Jochen Mierau
  12. Stef Kremers
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Abstract

In recent years, significant insights have been gathered into the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in improving health and preventing chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). To speed up the implementation of evidence-based lifestyle medicine, we developed a research agenda in collaboration with Dutch experts in treating NCD, using a hybrid Delphi approach. The research agenda focus on four key themes 1) Promoting sustainable behavioral change at patient, healthcare professional and organizational levels; 2) Optimizing research designs, methodology and outcomes for the evaluation of effectiveness and implementation of lifestyle medicine modalities in healthcare practice; 3) Elucidating biological mechanisms underlying successful lifestyle interventions; and 4) Advancing data infrastructure to ensure accessible data for citizens, healthcare professionals, researchers and health insurers for monitoring and evaluation of health and lifestyle outcomes. Collectively, the identified knowledge questions across these four themes provide guidance for (applied) research towards lifestyle medicine in healthcare.

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