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ArticleCurrent developments in nutrition2025

Developing Group Model-Building Workshops for Children's Healthy Living Food Systems.

Peter S Hovmand, Karen Franck, Jean Butel, Jennifer Galbreath, Monica Esquivel, Patricia Coleman, Tanisha Aflague, Leslie Shallcross, Callie Ogland-Hand, Jordan Oshiro and 3 more

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Article in Current developments in nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Systems Science in Nutrition and Dietetics Research: A Practical Lens for Applying Systems Approaches in Research.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Peter S HovmandDivision of Medical Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Karen FranckDepartment of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States.
Jean ButelDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.
Jennifer GalbreathDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.
Monica EsquivelDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.
Patricia ColemanCooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services, Northern Marianas College, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Tanisha AflagueCooperative Extension and Outreach, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam.
Leslie ShallcrossCooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AL, United States.
Callie Ogland-HandDivision of Medical Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Jordan OshiroDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.
Tayna Belyeu-CamachoCooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services, Northern Marianas College, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Amelia SikesCooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AL, United States.
Rachel NovotnyDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article reports on the development of group model-building workshops for understanding children's nutrition and health as a complex adaptive system. A community-based system dynamics approach was used to conduct workshops in 5 United States-Affiliated Pacific jurisdictions as part of the Children's Healthy Living Food Systems project from October 2022 to March 2023. Workshops were cofacilitated by local teams using a facilitation guide with a series of structured small-group exercises or "scripts" and evaluated using a pre-post participant survey. Products generated through these workshops included causal maps of the food systems driving child nutrition and health and prioritized action ideas that can be used to inform program design, planning, and implementation of local initiatives. Workshop evaluation highlights the robustness of workshops across jurisdictions, cultural contexts, and varied experiences of facilitation teams. Implications for the future development of group model-building facilitation guides and child nutrition are discussed.

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child dietcommunity-based system dynamicsfood systemsgroup model buildingnutrition

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PMID40212831
PMCPMC11985027

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