Intervention in Preventing and Managing Metabolic Syndrome in Community-Based Adults: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Background: Various efforts have been made in preventing and managing metabolic syndrome, one of which is lifestyle behaviors changing. Lifestyle intervention models, such as regulating nutrition and diet, increasing physical activity, education in the health sector have been widely developed in preventing metabolic syndrome by decreasing its components such as obesity, dyslipidemia, blood sugar and hypertension. Objective: to assess intervention model in preventing and managing metabolic syndrome in community-based adults. Method: three data bases have been selected in this study as sources of review such as Pubmed, Proquest and CINAHL (Ebscho), which have been published between 2006 and 2015 for data related to interventions in preventing metabolic syndrome in community-based adults. Results: ten articles related to interventions in preventing and managing metabolic syndrome in adults were reviewed based on eligibility criteria which consists of 3 randomization controlled trials, 6 non-randomization controlled trials (included in this study are pre-test post-test controlled designs), and 1 time series article with an intervention only in one sample group. Most articles (8 articles) indicate to lifestyle interventions that include increased physical activity, diet and nutrition, with the main objective is to prevent an increase in metabolic syndrome status.