Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Early Nutritional Education in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity.
Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Free summer programming on elementary-aged children's food and beverage consumption: a randomized clinical trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Multi-component school intervention reduces obesity and improves health behaviors in children: a cluster- randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Relates with BMI Z-Score and with Response to Lifestyle Intervention for Children with Overweight and Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Trial
- Trial
- Exploring Drivers of Children's Food Choices: A Multi-Source Process Evaluation of a School-Based Nutrition Education Program.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Effects of Physical Activity Together With Nutrition Programs in Educational Settings on Obesity and Overweight Reduction in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2026Review
- Central adiposity in early childhood: a cross-sectional comparison of waist-to-height ratio and waist circumference percentiles.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Exploring the development and prevention of the childhood obesity epidemic in Barbados using the socio-ecological framework: a qualitative study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Early Roots of Childhood Obesity: Risk Factors, Mechanisms, and Prevention Strategies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Economic Rationality and Health Behavior: Investigating the Link Between Financial Literacy and the BMI.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The invisible connection of mothers' BMI, emotional appetite, and food choices with childhood obesity.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Body mass index and head circumference growth charts for the United Arab Emirates-the UAEMCGS 2 study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Risk behavior for obesity: a conceptual analysis according to Walker and Avant.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Weight Loss Programs: Why Do They Fail? A Multidimensional Approach for Obesity Management.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- The Prevention of Childhood Obesity Is a Priority: The Preliminary Results of the "EpPOI: Education to Prevent Childhood Obesity" Project.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Barriers to Care for Pediatric Patients with Obesity.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Association of dietary habits with general and abdominal obesity in Korean children and adolescents: cluster analysis of nationwide population survey data.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Adequate Nutrition in Early Childhood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessment of the Health Status of Spanish Schoolchildren Based on Nutrimetry, Lifestyle and Intestinal Parasites.Nutrients · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Early childhood is a critical period for obesity prevention. This randomized controlled study evaluated the effectiveness of an educational intervention preventing obesity in preschool-age children. A nutritional education intervention, with a follow-up session one year later, was conducted with parents of children aged 3 to 4 years of public schools in the province of Málaga. The main outcome variable was the body mass index z-score (zBMI). The prevalence of overweight or obesity was the secondary outcome variable. The sample comprised 261 students (control group = 139). Initial BMI, weight, height-for-age and prevalence of overweight and obesity were similar for both groups. After the first year of the intervention, the zBMI of the intervention group decreased significantly from 0.23 to 0.10 (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.