Multiple Health Behavior Change Research:En avant, March!

摘要

This Special Issue of Preventive Medicine reflects the current state of research on the interrelationships among multiple health behaviors and interventions designed to promote multiple health behavior change (MHBC), and is being published in lieu of the March issue ofPM.Two years ago, referring to studies on "risk factor clustering" rather than MHBC, we observed, inquired, and surmised that:"While publications on the clustering of risk factors are becoming ubiquitous, most papers fall short of assessing the practical implications of the phenomenon. Are the factors independent or do they interact? If they are independent, should prevention emphasize mass strategies to reduce risk factor prevalence in the population as a whole? If they interact, what would be the yield of screening and prevention strategies oriented towards specific subgroups of the population exhibiting risk factor clusters?Publications demonstrating that risk factors tend to accumulate in individuals or groups of people are bound to be just a passing buzz if they are not followed by randomized intervention studies indicating which prevention strategies can be effective and thus sending a signal for action."(Morabia and Costanza, 2006)#