Role Of Counseling To Promote Adherence In Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity

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 a 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.
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research