SynthesisPublic health nutrition2017
Efficacy of school-based interventions aimed at decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among adolescents: a systematic review.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for Promoting Adolescent Health Behaviors: Systematic Umbrella Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of school-based approaches for reduction of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Evidence-based dentistry · 2025Pooled it
- School-based healthy eating interventions for adolescents aged 10-19 years: an umbrella review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- What makes interventions aimed at improving dietary behaviours successful in the secondary school environment? A systematic review of systematic reviews.Public health nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Abridged Cochrane Systematic Review.Obesity facts · 2020Pooled it
- Food literacy programmes in secondary schools: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence.Public health nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness of behavioral interventions to reduce the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nutrition reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Fidelity evaluation of the Water First intervention for promoting tap water consumption in school-age children.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- The I-ACTED study (investigating action civics training through an experimental design): a cluster randomized controlled trial of a school-based action civics education intervention on adolescent wellbeing.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Maintenance of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Behaviors Among Adolescents and Their Caregivers: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Preventing chronic disease · 2025Trial
- An SMS intervention to reduce caregiver's sugar-sweetened beverages: impacts on theoretical constructs and parenting practices from a randomized controlled trial in rural appalachia.Journal of nutritional science · 2025Trial
- Comparison of Researcher-Led versus Teacher-Led effectiveness and fidelity: A Hybrid Type 1 study of Kids SIPsmartER in Appalachia middle schools.Translational behavioral medicine · 2024Trial
- Kids SIPsmartER reduces sugar-sweetened beverages among Appalachian middle-school students and their caregivers: a cluster randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Trial
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- Effectiveness of a School Drinking Water Promotion and Access Program for Overweight Prevention.Pediatrics · 2023Trial
- A Brief Motivational Intervention Differentially Reduces Sugar-sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Trial
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- Thirsty? Choose Water! Behavioural interventions and water stations in secondary schools a two-by-two factorial randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Trends in Dairy and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption among Korean Young Adults Aged 19-29 Years: Analysis of Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010-2021.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo verify the efficacy of school-based interventions aimed at reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption among adolescents in order to develop or improve public health interventions.
designSystematic review of interventions targeting adolescents and/or the school environment.
settingThe following databases were investigated: MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and EMBASE. Proquest Dissertations and Theses was also investigated for unpublished trials. SUBJECTS: Adolescents were defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 17 years.
resultsA total of thirty-six studies detailing thirty-six different interventions tested among independent samples (n 152 001) were included in the review. Twenty interventions were classified as educational/behavioural and ten were classified as legislative/environmental interventions. Only six interventions targeted both individuals and their environment. Over 70 % of all interventions, regardless of whether they targeted individuals, their environment or both, were effective in decreasing SSB consumption. Legislative/environmental studies had the highest success rate (90·0 %). Educational/behavioural interventions only and interventions that combined educational/behavioural and legislative/environmental approaches were almost equally effective in reducing SSB consumption with success rates of 65·0 and 66·7 %, respectively. Among the interventions that had an educational/behavioural component, 61·5 % were theory-based. The behaviour change techniques most frequently used in interventions were providing information about the health consequences of performing the behaviour (72·2 %), restructuring the physical environment (47·2 %), behavioural goal setting (36·1 %), self-monitoring of behaviour (33·3 %), threat to health (30·6 %) and providing general social support (30·6 %).
conclusionsSchool-based interventions show promising results to reduce SSB consumption among adolescents. A number of recommendations are made to improve future studies.
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