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Publication Detail
Visualising health risks with medical imaging for changing recipients' health behaviours and risk factors: Systematic review with meta-analysis
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Publication Type:Journal article
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Authors:Hollands G, Usher-Smith JJ, Hasan R, Alexander F, Clarke N, Griffin S
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Publisher:PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
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Publication date:2022
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Journal:PLoS Medicine
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Volume:19
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Issue:3
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Article number:e1003920
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Medium:Electronic-eCollection
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Status:Published
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Country:United States
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PII:PMEDICINE-D-21-01143
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Language:English
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Publisher URL:
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Notes:© 2022 Hollands et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is ongoing clinical and research interest in determining whether providing personalised risk information could motivate risk-reducing health behaviours. We aimed to assess the impact on behaviours and risk factors of feeding back to individuals’ images of their bodies generated via medical imaging technologies in assessing their current disease status or risk. METHODS AND FINDINGS: There is ongoing clinical and research interest in determining whether providing personalised risk information could motivate risk-reducing health behaviours. We aimed to assess the impact on behaviours and risk factors of feeding back to individuals’ images of their bodies generated via medical imaging technologies in assessing their current disease status or risk. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we observed that feedback of medical images to individuals has the potential to motivate risk-reducing behaviours and reduce risk factors. Should this promise be corroborated through further adequately powered trials that better mitigate against risk of bias, such interventions could usefully capitalise upon the widespread and growing use of medical imaging technologies in healthcare.
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