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SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2019

The effect of screen advertising on children's dietary intake: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Simon J Russell, Helen Croker, Russell M Viner

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Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Impact of food, beverage, and alcohol brand marketing on consumptive behaviors and health in children and adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  5. Systematic review of the effect of policies to restrict the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to which children are exposed.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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  6. The impact on dietary outcomes of licensed and brand equity characters in marketing unhealthy foods to children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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  7. The influence of unhealthy food and beverage marketing through social media and advergaming on diet-related outcomes in children-A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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  13. The effect of screen advertising on children's dietary intake: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Simon J RussellUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9447-1169
Helen CrokerUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
Russell M VinerUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence indicates that screen advertising for unhealthy food results in significant increases in dietary intake among children. This review was undertaken with the main aim of estimating the quantitative effect of screen advertising in experimental and nonexperimental conditions on children's dietary intake. Systematic searches were undertaken of interdisciplinary databases. Studies from 1980 to April 2018, all geography and languages, were included; participants were children and adolescents aged between 2 and 18 years; the intervention was screen advertising; and the outcome was dietary intake. Meta-analyses were conducted for measured and nonmeasured outcomes. Food advertising was found to increase dietary intake among children (age range 2-14, mean 8.8 years) in experimental conditions for television (TV) advertising and advergames. Meta-analysis revealed that children exposed to food advertising on TV (11 studies) and advergames (five studies) respectively consumed an average 60.0 kcal (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.1-116.9) and 53.2 kcal (95% CI, 31.5-74.9) more than children exposed to nonfood advertising. There was also an effect by body mass index (BMI). Findings from nonexperimental studies revealed that exposure to TV food advertising was positively associated with and predictive of dietary intake in children. Short-term exposure to unhealthy food advertising on TV and advergames increases immediate calorie consumption in children.

Indexed as

AdvertisingDietTelevisionAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolEnergy IntakeFast FoodsFeeding BehaviorHumanschild and adolescent healthfood advertisingobesitypolicy

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PMID30576057
PMCPMC6446725

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