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Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity.

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Stonerock, GL; Blumenthal, JA
Published in: Prog Cardiovasc Dis
2017

Although healthy lifestyles (HL) offer a number of health benefits, nonadherence to recommended lifestyle changes remains a frequent and difficult obstacle to realizing these benefits. Behavioral counseling can improve adherence to an HL. However, individuals' motivation for change and resistance to altering unhealthy habits must be considered when developing an effective approach to counseling. In the present article, we review psychological, behavioral, and environmental factors that may promote adherence and contribute to nonadherence. We discuss two established models for counseling, motivational interviewing and the transtheoretical model of behavior change, and provide an example of how these approaches can be used to counsel patients to exercise and increase their levels of physical activity.

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Prog Cardiovasc Dis

DOI

EISSN

1873-1740

Publication Date

2017

Volume

59

Issue

5

Start / End Page

455 / 462

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Patient Compliance
  • Life Style
  • Humans
  • Healthy Lifestyle
  • Health Promotion
  • Health Behavior
  • Exercise
  • Counseling
  • Cardiovascular System & Hematology
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
 

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Stonerock, G. L., & Blumenthal, J. A. (2017). Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity. Prog Cardiovasc Dis, 59(5), 455–462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2016.09.003
Stonerock, Gregory L., and James A. Blumenthal. “Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity.Prog Cardiovasc Dis 59, no. 5 (2017): 455–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2016.09.003.
Stonerock, Gregory L., and James A. Blumenthal. “Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity.Prog Cardiovasc Dis, vol. 59, no. 5, 2017, pp. 455–62. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2016.09.003.
Journal cover image

Published In

Prog Cardiovasc Dis

DOI

EISSN

1873-1740

Publication Date

2017

Volume

59

Issue

5

Start / End Page

455 / 462

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Patient Compliance
  • Life Style
  • Humans
  • Healthy Lifestyle
  • Health Promotion
  • Health Behavior
  • Exercise
  • Counseling
  • Cardiovascular System & Hematology
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology