Cochrane reviews about illness prevention and health promotion
Resource Bank part 1
Cochrane reviews
- Abstinence-only programs for HIV infection prevention in high-income countries.
- Abstinence-plus programs for HIV infection prevention in high-income countries.
- Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well-being of women who experience intimate partner abuse.
- Alternatives to inpatient mental health care for children and young people.
- Biomedical risk assessment as an aid for smoking cessation.
- Brief interventions for heavy alcohol users admitted to general hospital wards.
- Cognitive-behavioural interventions for preventing youth gang involvement for children and young people (7-16).
- Community-based interventions for the prevention of burns and scalds in children.
- Community interventions for preventing smoking in young people.
- Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults.
- Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation.
- Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation.
- Dietary advice for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults.
- Dietary advice for reducing cardiovascular risk.
- Dietary advice in pregnancy for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Diet or exercise, or both, for weight reduction in women after childbirth.
- Early developmental intervention programs post hospital discharge to prevent motor and cognitive impairments in preterm infants.
- Education of children and adolescents for the prevention of dog bite injuries.
- Educational interventions for the prevention of eye injuries.
- Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations.
- Enhancing partner support to improve smoking cessation.
- Exercise or exercise and diet for preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
- Family and parenting interventions in children and adolescents with conduct disorder and delinquency aged 10-17.
- Family-based programmes for preventing smoking by children and adolescents.
- Graduated driver licensing for reducing motor vehicle crashes among young drivers.
- Group-based parent-training programmes for improving emotional and behavioural adjustment in 0-3 year old children.
- Group behaviour therapy programmes for smoking cessation.
- Healthcare financing systems for increasing the use of tobacco dependence treatment.
- Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention.
- Household interventions for prevention of domestic lead exposure in children.
- Impact of tobacco advertising and promotion on increasing adolescent smoking behaviours.
- Individual and group-based parenting programmes for improving psychosocial outcomes for teenage parents and their children.
- Individual and group-based parenting programmes for the treatment of physical child abuse and neglect.
- Interventions for educating traditional healers about STD and HIV medicine.
- Interventions for encouraging sexual lifestyles and behaviours intended to prevent cervical cancer.
- Interventions for heartburn in pregnancy.
- Interventions for improving the psychosocial well-being of children affected by HIV and AIDS.
- Interventions for preventing eating disorders in children and adolescents.
- Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community
- Interventions for preventing injuries in problem drinkers.
- Interventions for preventing injuries in the agricultural industry.
- Interventions for preventing injuries in the construction industry.
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.
- Interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors.
- Interventions for preventing unintended pregnancies among adolescents.
- Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation.
- Interventions for prevention of drug use by young people delivered in non-school settings.
- Interventions for promoting booster seat use in four to eight year olds traveling in motor vehicles.
- Interventions for promoting physical activity.
- Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function.
- Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients.
- Interventions for the interruption or reduction of the spread of respiratory viruses.
- Interventions for tobacco cessation in the dental setting.
- Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport.
- Interventions in the alcohol server setting for preventing injuries.
- Interventions in the workplace to support breastfeeding for women in employment.
- Interventions to modify sexual risk behaviors for preventing HIV infection in men who have sex with men.
- Interventions to promote the wearing of hearing protection.
- Interventions to reduce harm from continued tobacco use.
- Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment.
- Mass media interventions for preventing smoking in young people.
- Mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing.
- Mass media interventions for smoking cessation in adults.
- Material manual handling advice and assistive devices for preventing and treating back pain in workers.
- Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation.
- Modification of the home environment for the reduction of injuries.
- Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease.
- Non-legislative interventions for the promotion of cycle helmet wearing by children.
- Nursing interventions for smoking cessation.
- Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood.
- Parent-training programmes for improving maternal psychosocial health.
- Peer support telephone calls for improving health.
- Pelvic floor muscle training for prevention and treatment of urinary and faecal incontinence in antenatal and postnatal women.
- Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change.
- Population-based interventions for reducing sexually transmitted infections, including HIV infection.
- Population-based interventions for the prevention of fall-related injuries in older people.
- Post-licence driver education for the prevention of road traffic crashes.
- Preconception counselling for women with epilepsy to reduce adverse pregnancy outcome.
- Preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers.
- Primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people.
- Psychological and/or educational interventions for the prevention of depression in children and adolescents.
- Psychological and/or educational interventions for reducing alcohol consumption in pregnant women and women planning pregnancy.
- Psychosocial interventions for prevention of psychological disorders in law enforcement officers.
- Psychosocial interventions for the prevention of disability following traumatic physical injury.
- Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation.
- Recall intervals for oral health in primary care patients.
- Red-light cameras for the prevention of road traffic crashes.
- Relapse prevention interventions for smoking cessation.
- Routine pre-pregnancy health promotion for improving pregnancy outcomes.
- Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention.
- “Scared Straight" and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency.
- School-based driver education for the prevention of traffic crashes.
- School-based education programmes for the prevention of child sexual abuse.
- School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence.
- School-based prevention for illicit drugs' use.
- School-based programmes for preventing smoking.
- Social norms interventions to reduce alcohol misuse in University or College students.
- Strategies for communicating contraceptive effectiveness.
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.
- The 'WHO Safe Communities' model for the prevention of injury in whole populations.
- Theory-based interventions for contraception.
- Tobacco cessation interventions for young people.
- Vision screening of older drivers for preventing road traffic injuries and fatalities.
- Workplace interventions for preventing work disability.
- Workplace interventions for smoking cessation.
Protocols (accessible on The Cochrane Library)
- Behavioral interventions for increasing the use of condoms in women with HIV.
- Behavioral interventions for reducing HIV infection in employees in occupational settings.
- Community-based intervention package for preventing maternal morbidity and mortality and improving neonatal outcomes.
- Debriefing forthe prevention of psychological trauma in women following childbirth.
- Educational interventions for healthcare professionals to prevent pressure ulcers.
- Educational programmes for skin cancer prevention.
- The effect of community health educational interventions on newborn survival in developing countries.
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion.
- Families and Schools Together (FAST) for improving outcomes of school-aged children and their families.
- Family group decision making for children at risk of abuse and neglect.
- Harm reduction interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in involuntary detainees.
- Health examination for preventing occupational injuries and disease in workers.
- Home based child development interventions for pre-school children from socially disadvantaged families.
- Increasing motorcycle and rider conspicuity for preventing death and injury in motorcyclists.
- In-service training in the care of the seriously ill newborn or child for health professionals in developing countries
- Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion.
- Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation.
- Interventions for enhancing the skills of consumers to find, evaluate and use online health information.
- Interventions to modify sexual risk behaviours for preventing HIV in homeless youth.
- Interventions for preventing excessive weight gain during pregnancy.
- Interventions for preventing injuries caused by impaired alertness in individuals who are not sleep deprived.
- Interventions for preventing injuries caused by impaired alertness in individuals who are sleep deprived.
- Interventions for preventing injuries caused by impaired alertness in individuals with jet lag and shift work disorder.
- Interventions for preventing falls in older people in nursing care facilities and hospitals.
- Interventions for preventing hamstring injuries.
- Interventions for reduction of stigma in people with HIV/AIDS.
- Interventions for the prevention of relationship and dating violence in adolescents and young people.
- Legislative smoking bans for reducing smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption.
- Mentoring of children and adolescents for preventing drug and alcohol use.
- Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation.
- Motivational interviewing for substance abuse.
- Motivational interviewing for the prevention of alcohol misuse in young people.
- Motorcycle helmet legislation for preventing injuries in motorcyclists.
- Motorcycle rider training for preventing road traffic crashes.
- One-to-one dietary interventions undertaken in a dental setting for a change in dietary behaviour and the prevention of dental caries and erosion.
- Parenting programmes for improving the parenting skills and outcomes for incarcerated parents and their children.
- Parent mediated reading interventions for children aged birth to 48 months.
- Prevention of percutaneous injuries with risk of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or other viral infections for health-care workers.
- Prevention of suicide and suicidal behaviour in adolescents.
- Primary prevention interventions for reducing school violence.
- Psychosocial interventions for the reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users.
- Relaxation therapy for preventing and treating preterm labour.
- Risk scoring for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
- School-based interventions to postpone sexual intercourse and promote condom use among adolescents.
- Screening women for intimate partner violence in health care settings.
- Social and lifestyle interventions for preventing low birth weight in South Asians.
- Stage-based interventions for smoking cessation.
- Structural and community-level interventions for increasing condom use to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
- Supplementary feeding with nutritional education for caregivers for promoting growth and development in young children in developing countries.
- Workplace interventions for alcohol and other drug problems.