Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Schools: A Realist Review from UK Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern. While evidence from a recent comprehensive Cochrane review indicates school-based interventions can prevent obesity, we still do not know how or for whom these work best. We aimed to identify the contextual and mechanistic factors associated with obesity prevention interventions implementable in primary schools. A realist synthesis following the Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses-Evolving Standards (RAMESES) guidance was with eligible studies from the 2019 Cochrane review on interventions in primary schools. The initial programme theory was developed through expert consensus and stakeholder input and refined with data from included studies to produce a final programme theory including all of the context-mechanism-outcome confi

SUBMITTER: Ijaz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8702173 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature