Is School Gardening Combined with Physical Activity Intervention Effective for Improving Childhood Obesity? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: School gardening activities (SGA) combined with physical activities (PA) may improve childhood dietary intake and prevent overweight and obesity. This study aims to evaluate the effect of SGA combined with PA on children's dietary intake and anthropometric outcomes. We searched studies containing randomized controlled trials up to January 2021 in Web of Science, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and the EBSCO database on this topic for children aged 7 to 12 years. Fourteen studies met the requirements for meta-analysis (n = 9187). We found that SGA has no obvious effect on improving children's BMI (WMD = -0.49; p = 0.085; I² = 86.3%), BMI z-score (WMD = -0.12; p = 0.235; I² = 63.0%), and WC (WMD = -0.98; p = 0.05; I² = 72.9%). SGA can ef

SUBMITTER: Qi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8402215 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature