Impacts of School Nutrition Interventions on the Nutritional Status of School-Aged Children in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: This review aims to describe school nutrition interventions implemented in Asia and quantify their effects on school-aged children's nutritional status. We searched Web of Science, Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, Global Health, Econlit, APA PsycInfo, and Social Policy and Practice for English articles published from January 2000 to January 2021. We quantified the pooled effects of the interventions on the changes in body mass index (BMI) and body mass index z score (BAZ), overall and by type of intervention. In total, 28 articles were included for this review, of which 20 articles were multi-component interventions. Twenty-seven articles were childhood obesity studies and were included for meta-analysis. Overall, school nutrition interventions reduced school-aged children's BMI and BAZ. Multi-compon

SUBMITTER: Pongutta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8839996 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature