A developmental cascade perspective of paediatric obesity: A systematic review of preventive interventions from infancy through late adolescence.

ABSTRACT: The goals of this systematic review were to identify and describe paediatric obesity prevention interventions from infancy to late adolescence and to provide recommendations for future intervention research in light of a recently proposed developmental cascade (DC) model of paediatric obesity. We conducted an electronic search of randomized controlled trials with a minimum 6-month postintervention follow-up published between 1995 and 2019. We included 74 interventions: prenatal/infancy (n = 4), early childhood (n = 11), childhood (n = 38), early to mid-adolescence (n = 18), and late adolescence (n = 3). Infancy and early childhood trials targeted early feeding and positive parenting skills. Half of the childhood and adolescence trials were school based and used universal prevention strateg

SUBMITTER: St George SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980892 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature