SynthesisPublic health nutrition2014
Strengthening the rigour of population-wide, community-based obesity prevention evaluations.
Synthesis in Public health nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of economic evidence for community-based obesity prevention interventions in children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- A randomised controlled trial of performance review and facilitated feedback to increase implementation of healthy eating and physical activity-promoting policies and practices in centre-based childcare.Implementation science : IS · 2019Trial
- Burden of disease attributable to high body mass index: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Untangling the complex implementation process of community-based health promotion: a multiple-case study in the Netherlands.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Article
- Impact of a community-based pilot intervention to tackle childhood obesity: a 'whole-system approach' case study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Process Evaluation and Costing of a Multifaceted Population-Wide Intervention to Reduce Salt Consumption in Fiji.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Evaluating Community-Based Health Improvement Programs.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2018Article
- Validation of clinic weights from electronic health records against standardized weight measurements in weight loss trials.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of the present study was to review the methodological literature regarding evaluation methods for complex public health interventions broadly and, based on such methods, to critically reflect on the evaluation of contemporary community-based obesity prevention programmes.
designA systematic review of the methods and community-based literature was performed by one reviewer.
resultsThe review identified that there is considerable scope to improve the rigour of community-based obesity prevention programmes through: prospective trial registration; the use of more rigorous research designs, particularly where routine databases including an objective measure of adiposity are available; implementing strategies to quantify and reduce the risk of selective non-participation bias; the development and use of validated instruments to assess intervention impacts; reporting of intervention process and context information; and more comprehensive analyses of trial outcomes.
conclusionsTo maximise the quality and utility of community-based obesity prevention evaluations, programme implementers and evaluators need to carefully examine the strengths and pitfalls of evaluation decisions and seek to maximise evaluation rigour in the context of political, resource and practical constraints.
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