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ArticleHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2023

Measuring Shifts in Mental Models in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Rural Australia.

Tiana Felmingham, Kristy A Bolton, Penny Fraser, Steven Allender, Andrew D Brown

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Article in Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. BMJ open · 2026
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  3. Systems approaches in public health: beyond mapping the causes.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tiana FelminghamDeakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2278-7249
Kristy A BoltonDeakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Penny FraserDeakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Steven AllenderDeakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Andrew D BrownDeakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Deakin University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Group model building is a participatory workshop technique used in system dynamics for developing community consensus to address complex problems by consensus building on individual assumptions. This study examines changes in individual mental models of the complex problem of childhood obesity following participation in group model building (GMB), as part of a larger community-based system dynamics project. Data are drawn from GMB participants across six community sites in the Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity (WHO STOPS) in rural and regional Victoria, Australia. Each community participated in two GMB sessions resulting in a causal loop diagram (CLD) of drivers of childhood obesity for each community. Presurvey and postsurvey captured participants' perspectives before and after (

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Pediatric ObesityAustraliaChildHealth PromotionHumansModels, PsychologicalRural Populationchildhood obesitycommunity-based system dynamicsmental modelspreventionsystems thinking

Identifiers

PMID37128853
PMCPMC10492428
OpenAlexW4367668230

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