Background
Lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases, death, anxiety, common mental disorders, psychiatric, depression, coronary heart disease
CORONARY HEART DISEASE, TYPE 2 DIABETES
Lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes are the primary cause of death worldwide and constitute one of the largest challenges in health care today (GBD, Patients with common mental disorders, such as mild to moderate depression and anxiety, are increasingly being treated at primary care health clinics, rather than being referred for specialist psychiatric treatment (Mancini, The implementation of structured lifestyle promotion in primary care has been studied in Sweden, using a brief pencil-and-paper intervention, the ‘Health Profile’ (HP) (Blomstrand Observational results from a naturalistic study showed that the HP attracted primary care patients with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, and yielded significant within-group reductions in body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, and p-glucose observed at 1-year follow-up (Blomstrand 