title: Promoting physical activity and healthy dietary behavior: the role of the occupational health services: a scoping review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Conduct a scoping review to identify and map the literature that has evaluated the effects of health promotion interventions aimed at physical activity and/or dietary behavior, implemented by the occupational health services.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search for peer-reviewed articles was conducted (up to February 2013) through electronic databases, hand searching of key journals, and reference lists. A methodological quality assessment was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fourteen studies were included, describing 10 interventions. The main component was counseling of individuals with known cardiovascular disease risk factors. Intervention effects were reported for dietary behavior, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and biological risk factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results are promising, especially with regard to interventions containing counseling targeting individuals at risk. High-quality studies using objective measures to assess behavioral outcomes and the (cost)-effectiveness of interventions containing counseling, PA on prescription, and multilevel interventions are needed.
authors.affiliation: From the Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research (Drs Kwak, Jensen, Karlsson, and Alipour), Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Division of Physiotherapy (Dr Hagströmer), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; and Division of Social Medicine (Dr Elinder), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hagströmer
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Malin Lohela
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Karlsson
authors.forename: Akbar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alipour
authors.forename: Liselotte Schäfer
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Elinder
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D004032:Diet; D037001:Directive Counseling; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D012380:Role; D017132:Workplace