Interventions to improve vitamin D status in at-risk ethnic groups during pregnancy and early childhood: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically review the literature with the primary aim of identifying behavioural interventions to improve vitamin D stores in children from at-risk ethnic groups.

Design

Review based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42017080932. Health Behaviour Model and Behaviour Change Wheel framework constructs used to underpin evaluation of interventions. Methodological quality evaluated using Cochrane Risk of Bias, Cochrane ROBINS-I and NHLBI tools.

Setting

Databases Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL with secondary search of Google Scholar. No country limits set. Papers between January 1990 and February 2018, published in English included. Anticipating study hetero

SUBMITTER: Tanna NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195367 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature