Social Work Intervention in the Prevention of Lifestyle Disorders

Abstract

A persons regular daily practices are a major contributing factor to the occurrence of lifestyle disorders. It could encourage someone to lead a sedentary lifestyle on a daily basis if these practices are harmful. Such a lifestyle may also contribute to a number of chronic, non-communicable diseases, some of which can be extremely hazardous. The rationale behind the study was, in past one decade, there is significant increase in lifestyle disorders and with the use of day to day technology has tremendously changed the life which makes it easier and comfortable. The objective of this review paper was to examine the role of social work intervention in prevention of lifestyle disorders and to find out the outcome of psychosocial intervention from the previous studies done. We used PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar, three reputable databases to identify the relevant literature and for those papers inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined in order to find the results. We took papers from the years 2010 to 2023. Some modifiable risk factors that can be addressed by social work interventions include low education, sedentary lifestyles, obesity and smoking in middle age, diabetes, hypertension and depression in middle age. There is various intervention measures that can be used in prevention of lifestyle disorders and improve the quality of life. Poor adherence to lifestyle treatments remains a key obstacle to treatment effectiveness and positive health outcomes for obese patients. The use of behavioural treatment techniques was found to considerably increase adherence, with beneficial impacts on session attendance and total weekly minutes of physical activity.

Keywords: Social Work, Social Work Intervention, Lifestyle, Prevention, Treatment

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