ReviewPublic health in practice (Oxford, England)2026
Effectiveness of culturally adapted lifestyle intervention package on blood pressure: A systematic review.
Review in Public health in practice (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: This systematic review aimed to identify culturally adapted lifestyle intervention packages and evaluate their effectiveness in reducing blood pressure across diverse populations. The focus was on interventions incorporating dietary, physical activity, and behavioral components within culturally relevant contexts. Study design: Systematic review of literature. Methods: A comprehensive systematic review search was conducted across PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, and the Cochrane Library from March 5 to 11, 2024, covering studies published from 1995 to 2024, per the registered PROSPERO protocol. Search strategies targeted three key concepts: blood pressure, cultural adaptation, and lifestyle interventions, with cultural adaptation defined as any change made to the intervention's content, delivery, or materials to take into account the language, dietary patterns, social or societal norms, or community structures of the target group. Reference lists of included articles and relevant reviews were manually screened and explored. All studies were assessed using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure methodological rigor and relevance. Results: Thirty-two studies involving 21,990 participants aged 18-95 years were included. Sample sizes ranged from 19 to 10,741, with most studies enrolling both sexes. Most interventions reported significant reductions in systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure. Multi-component interventions combining dietary modification, physical activity, and behavioral education were consistently effective. Culturally tailored programs, particularly group-based interventions with longer duration and follow-up, showed sustained improvements; certainty of evidence, assessed using GRADE, was moderate for dietary interventions but very low for behavioral/educational and exercise-based interventions, reflecting variation between studies and the predominance of data from high-income countries. Conclusions: Culturally adapted lifestyle interventions are effective, feasible, and sustainable strategies for lowering blood pressure. Multi-component approaches that integrate dietary, physical, and behavioral elements, particularly when culturally contextualized and community-based, offer practical, non-pharmacological options for hypertension management across diverse populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.