Influence of a community-based approach to improve risk factors of lifestyle diseases by Japanese public health nurses: A case-control study.

Background And Objectives: It is important to examine the roles of specific health check-up and specific health guidance in individuals at high risk of common lifestyle diseases, but evaluation based on a stratified analysis of people undergoing a health check-up has not been adequately performed. In this study, we examined the effects of providing specific health guidance to individuals considered at high risk for a lifestyle disease after specific health check-ups.

Method: Subjects who underwent a specific health check-up in 2012 were assigned to either a group that received health guidance from public health nurses over three years (n = 393) or a control group (n = 109).