ArticleNutrition research and practice2019
Effectiveness of worksite-based dietary interventions on employees' obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Effectiveness of Occupational Health Promotion Programs on Cardiometabolic risk factors: A Systematic Review and Three-Level Meta-Analysis.La Medicina del lavoro · 2025Pooled it
- Improving Eating Habits at the Office: An Umbrella Review of Nutritional Interventions.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Influence of Nutrition, Food and Diet-Related Interventions in the Workplace: A Meta-Analysis with Meta-Regression.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes for dietary habits, overweight, and cardiometabolic health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2021Pooled it
- The effect of multimodal nutrition intervention on glucose and lipid parameters of Arfa Iron and Steel Company workers.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of workplace interventions for health promotion.The Lancet. Public health · 2025Review
- Assessing the Impact of Workforce Nutrition Programmes on Nutrition, Health and Business Outcomes: A Review of the Global Evidence and Future Research Agenda.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Worksite-based intensive lifestyle therapies for diabetes remission.Cell reports. Medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesThis study was designed to provide scientific evidence on the effectiveness of worksite-based dietary intervention to reduce obesity among overweight/obese employees. MATERIALS/
methodsElectronic search was performed using Ovid Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, and CINAHL databases. The keywords used were "obesity," "nutrition therapy," and "worksite." The internal validity of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was assessed using the Cochrane's Risk of Bias. Meta-analysis of selected studies was performed using Review Manager 5.3.
resultsA total of seven RCTs with 2,854 participants were identified. The effectiveness of dietary interventions was analyzed in terms of changes in weight, body mass index (BMI), total cholesterol, and blood pressure. The results showed that weight decreased with weighted mean difference (WMD) of -4.37 (95% confidence interval (CI): -6.54 to -2.20), but the effectiveness was statistically significant only in short-term programs < 6 months (
conclusionsThe worksite-based dietary interventions for overweight/obese employees showed modest short-term effects. These interventions can be considered successful because weight loss was below approximately 5-10 kg of the initial body weight, which is the threshold for the management of obesity recommended by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN).
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