Trial reportPublic health nutrition2021
Promoting water consumption among children: a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial testing a social network intervention.
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- Effects of nutritional intervention strategies in the primary prevention of overweight and obesity in school settings: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of an Intervention to Prevent Ultra-Processed Foods and Added Sugar in the First Year of Life: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial in Brazil.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Trial
- Understanding the behavioral determinants of adolescents' water consumption: A cross-country comparative study.Dialogues in health · 2023Article
- Technology-Based Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Adolescents: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Multilevel network interventions: Goals, actions, and outcomes.Social networks · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Correlates of Recreational Screen Time among Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Social network interventions in the space of topological relationships between communities.Social network analysis and mining · 2022Article
- Motivating Social Influencers to Engage in Health Behavior Interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the 'H2NOE Water Schools' programme to promote water consumption in elementary schoolchildren: a non-randomised controlled cluster trial.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- Promoting water consumption among Dutch children: an evaluation of the social network intervention Share HBMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo test the effectiveness of a social network intervention (SNI) to improve children's healthy drinking behaviours.
designA three-arm cluster randomised control trial design was used. In the SNI, a subset of children were selected and trained as 'influence agents' to promote water consumption-as an alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)-among their peers. In the active control condition, all children were simultaneously exposed to the benefits of water consumption. The control condition received no intervention.
settingEleven schools in the Netherlands.
participantsFour hundred and fifty-one children (Mage = 10·74, SDage = 0·97; 50·8 % girls).
resultsStructural path models showed that children exposed to the SNI consumed 0·20 less SSB per day compared to those in the control condition (β = 0·25, P = 0·035). There was a trend showing that children exposed to the SNI consumed 0·17 less SSB per day than those in the active control condition (β = 0·20, P = 0·061). No differences were found between conditions for water consumption. However, the moderation effects of descriptive norms (β = -0·12, P = 0·028) and injunctive norms (β = 0·11-0·14, both P = 0·050) indicated that norms are more strongly linked to water consumption in the SNI condition compared to the active control and control conditions.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that a SNI promoting healthy drinking behaviours may prevent children from consuming more SSB. Moreover, for water consumption, the prevailing social norms in the context play an important role in mitigating the effectiveness of the SNI.
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