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Lifestyle Counseling

Lifestyle choices play a significant role in the emergence of non-communicable disorders. In recent years, various strategies for offering therapy in primary care to encourage healthier lifestyle choices have been introduced and assessed. It is crucial to explain how and why lifestyle counselling benefits both patients and healthcare professionals.

Lifestyle counselling can be effectively carried out within the framework of primary healthcare since it requires a long-term devotion and is based on a relationship between patients and therapists. This relationship can be categorised into five different areas: respect and understanding, knowledge of the ailment, evaluation and goal-setting, long-term assistance, and a framework to help with counselling in the primary care context. The findings highlight the necessity for both parties to participate in the lifestyle change process and the requirement for lifestyle counselling to be a partnership built on mutual respect, acceptance of the patient as the authority on his or her current living condition.