September 3, 2019Open Access

Social network interventions for health behaviours and outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Our findings suggest that social network interventions can be effective in the short term (6 months) for sexual health outcomes. Intervention effects for drug risk outcomes at each time point were not significant. There were also significant intervention effects for some other health outcomes including alcohol misuse, well-being, change in HbA1c, and smoking cessation.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7c168e57cdc1cc9ae2b21 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002890

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