Mackenzie Fong, Ryan Patrick William Kenny, Katie Thomson, Amrita Jesurasa, Amber Lavans, Maddey Patterson, Letitia Sermin-Reed, Giang Nguyen, Maria Raisa Jessica Aquino, Emer Cullen, Hannah O'Keefe, Malcolm Moffat, Nicola Heslehurst
Lower-intensity interventions delivered in primary and community care contacts could provide more equitable and scalable weight management support for postnatal women. This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to explore the effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of lower-intensity weight management support delivered by the non-specialist workforce. We included quantitative and qualitative studies of any design that evaluated a lower-intensity weight management intervention delivered by non-specialist workforce in women up to 5 years post-natal, and where intervention effectiveness (weight-related and/or behavioural outcomes), implementation and/or acceptability were reported...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health