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SynthesisJournal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community2021

Interventions that prevent or reduce obesity in children from birth to five years of age: A systematic review.

Katia Narzisi, Joan Simons

Erratum issuedOpen access · hybridAbstract readSystematic Review
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
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Synthesis in Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
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28citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  4. Umbrella review of systematic reviews to inform the development and translation of community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  19. Trial collaborators' perceptions of the process of delivering Healthy Beginnings advice via telephone calls or text messages.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katia NarzisiFaculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9869-0799
Joan SimonsFaculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.
The Open University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Childhood obesity worldwide affects 5.6% or 38.3 million children under five years of age. The longer children are overweight or obese, the more likely they are to become obese adults with all the contingent morbidity involved. An extensive number of preventive interventions to combat childhood obesity have been carried out worldwide. This article reports a systematic review of interventions aimed to reducing or preventing obesity under-fives. The search was performed with six different databases: Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cochrane, PubMed, Medline, and CINAHL. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria were independently assessed using Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Thirty studies involving 23,185 children across nine countries were included. Twenty-two were randomised controlled trials, and 8 quasi-experimental pretest/post-test design with comparison. These studies fell into four different categories: home-based interventions with family involvement (

Indexed as

Pediatric ObesityAdultChildChild, PreschoolDietEducational StatusExerciseHumansOverweightChildhood obesityeffectiveinterventionsoverweightsystematic reviewunder-fives

Identifiers

PMID32295414
PMCPMC8076837
OpenAlexW3016663856

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