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Nutrition and Physical Activity: Worksite Digital Health and Telephone Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: 2021

Healthy eating and regular physical activity are important ways to help prevent health problems like heart disease or type 2 diabetes. In this systematic review, the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) found that digital health and phone interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity, provided through the workplace, can increase healthy behaviors among interested adults. Interventions used websites, mobile apps, text messages, emails, or phone calls to offer educational information, plus one or more of the following:

  • Coaching or counseling from a professional 
  • Self-monitoring to record eating behaviors, physical activity, or weight
  • Goal setting
  • Computer-generated feedback that provides tailored information
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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2021). Nutrition and Physical Activity: Worksite Digital Health and Telephone Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating and Physical Activity. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/nutrition-and-physical-activity-worksite-digital-health-and-telephone-interventions-increase-healthy-eating-and-physical-activity.html.