Improving children's dairy food and calcium intake: can intervention work? A systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Strategies are needed to address the shortfall in children's dairy food and Ca intakes. The present review identified interventions targeting an increase in children's dairy food or Ca intakes, and determined characteristics associated with successful intervention.

Design

A systematic literature search identified fourteen intervention studies, published in English, between 1990 and 2010. Studies were evaluated for study population, setting and mode of delivery, dietary targets and outcome measures, measures of intervention intensity, intervention description, the use of behaviour change techniques and intervention effectiveness.

Setting

Interventions targeting an increase in dairy food or Ca intake.

Subjects

Children aged 5-12 years.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Hendrie GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10271453 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature