Development of a checklist to assess potentially effective components in combined lifestyle interventions for children with overweight or obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the Netherlands, Combined Lifestyle Interventions (CLIs), offered in primary care, aim to reduce the number of children with overweight or obesity. CLIs are carried out by a multidisciplinary team and focus on dietary advice and guidance, exercise and behaviour change. These CLIs are not uniformly designed and vary in protocols to suit the local circumstances. Due to the variation in content of CLIs it is difficult to investigate their effectiveness. To enable a proper evaluation of CLIs, we first need to unravel the 'black boxes' of CLIs by identifying the various potentially effective components.

Methods

First of all we identified potentially effective components in literature. Subsequently we organized an online consultation with experts with diverse backgro

SUBMITTER: Saat JJEH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538710 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature