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Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews of School-Based Nutrition Interventions to Determine Outcomes Used and Their Measurement Tools.Nutrition reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: A systematic review of qualitative studies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to Treat Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Promoting Healthy Eating among Young People-A Review of the Evidence of the Impact of School-Based Interventions.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Social marketing interventions to promote physical activity among 60 years and older: a systematic review of the literature.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Social marketing approaches to nutrition and physical activity interventions in early care and education centres: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Pooled it
- The promotion of healthy breakfast and snacks based on the social marketing model: a mixed-methods study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2021Trial
- Evaluating a child care-based social marketing approach for improving children's diet and physical activity: results from the Healthy Me, Healthy We cluster-randomized controlled trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Using a social marketing approach to develop Healthy Me, Healthy We: a nutrition and physical activity intervention in early care and education.Translational behavioral medicine · 2019Trial
- Assessing the integration of social marketing principles in ivory demand management interventions in China and Southeast Asia.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Review
- Attitudes, Norms, and Control: What Is Shaping Fijian Children's Physical Activity and Screen Time Behaviours?Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- Availability and Implementation Characteristics of Nutrition Health Promotion Interventions in Quebec Elementary Schools.The Journal of school health · 2025Article
- The case for investment in nutritional interventions to prevent and reduce childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in Peru: a modelling study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- School-based learning about sugary drinks: possibilities and potential for curriculum approaches supporting health promotion in New Zealand.Health education research · 2024Article
- The return on investment for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in China: a modelling study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
- Basic human values drive food choice decision-making in different food environments of Kenya and Tanzania.Appetite · 2023Article
- Tailored notification encouraging examinees with abnormal glucose levels in health checkups to seek medical care.Diabetology international · 2022Article
- Designing an eHealth Well-Being Program: A Participatory Design Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Older Adults in Balance Workshops for Fall Prevention: A Multicenter Quasi-Experimental Protocol Study.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
contextThe use of social marketing to modify lifestyle choices could be helpful in reducing youth obesity. Some or all of the 8 domains of the National Social Marketing Centre's social marketing benchmark criteria (SMBC) are often used but not always defined in intervention studies.
objectiveThe aim of this review is to assess the effectiveness of European school-based interventions to prevent obesity relative to the inclusion of SMBC domains in the intervention. DATA SOURCES: The PubMed, Cochrane, and ERIC databases were used. STUDY SELECTION: Nonrandomized and randomized controlled trials conducted from 1990 to April 2014 in participants aged 5 to 17 years were included. DATA EXTRACTION: After the study selection, the 8 domains of the SMBC were assessed in each included study.
resultsThirty-eight publications were included in the systematic review. For the meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting body mass index or prevalence of overweight and obesity were considered. Eighteen RCTs with a total of 8681 participants included at least 5 SMBC. The meta-analysis showed a small standardized mean difference in body mass index of -0.25 (95%CI, -0.45 to -0.04) and a prevalence of overweight and obesity odds ratio of 0.72 (95%CI, 0.5-0.97).
conclusionCurrent evidence indicates that the inclusion of at least 5 SMBC domains in school-based interventions could benefit efforts to prevent obesity in young people. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42014007297.
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