Improving implementation of school-based healthy eating and physical activity policies, practices, and programs: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Although best practice recommendations exist regarding school-based healthy eating and physical activity policies, practices, and programs, research indicates that implementation is poor. As the field of implementation science is rapidly evolving, an update of the recent review of strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in schools published in the Cochrane Library in 2017 was required. The primary aim of this review was to examine the effectiveness of strategies that aim to improve the implementation of school-based policies, practices, or programs to address child diet, physical activity, or obesity. A systematic review of articles published between August 31, 2016 and April 10, 2019 utilizing Cochrane methodology was conducted. In ad

SUBMITTER: Barnes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8320878 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature