Who, when?
This review, called “Motivational interviewing to support modifiable risk factor change in individuals at increased risk of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis”, focuses on individuals at risk of, yet without symptomatic pre-existent cardiovascular disease, therefore reaching out to individuals from the community clinics or hospital outpatient settings, before the disease is established.
What?
This review revolves around preventive cardiology programmes using motivational interviewing to facilitate lifestyle change. This article highlights important reflections on the application of preventative intervention characteristics.
Why?
This topic and the results of this review is of interest to a wide number of health professionals to support better practice and research in preventive cardiology.
How?
This review will support clinicians and/or researchers to select intervention components which look promising and likely to succeed. In fact, we have deemed these particular intervention characteristics as potential intervention items. We have done this after carrying out a careful evaluation of risk of bias and intervention effectiveness of each study. In studies where, minimal risk and significant intervention benefits were observed, intervention characteristics were identified and selected as more likely to be effective than others. Finally, suggestions for a primary study have been put forward throughout this review. A protocol for a primary study has been developed and is being tested.
Where?
The journal on which this paper was published is called PLOS ONE, or “The Public Library of Science ONE. The manuscript was published on November 11.
The article may be accessed in its entirety online.