Measuring beverage consumption in US children and adolescents: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Beverage consumption habits are associated with weight outcomes for children and adolescents. Many studies have examined youth's beverage consumption, but little is known about what methods are commonly used to assess youth beverage consumption and whether these strategies are valid and reliable. This study aimed to systematically review articles assessing beverage consumption among children and adolescents. We searched PubMed and Scopus for English-language articles published between February 2007 and February 2017 that measured and reported on American youth's (ages 2-18 years) beverage consumption. Searches yielded 17,165 articles, of which 589 articles describing 615 measures were extracted. We examined the types of assessment methods used, characteristics of these methods (e.g. validi

SUBMITTER: Grummon AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6103833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature