Response to school-based interventions for overweight and obesity: A systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Heterogeneity of response to paediatric obesity interventions is one of the greatest challenges to obesity care. While evaluating school-based interventions by mean changes compared to control is important, it does not provide an understanding of the individual variability in response to intervention. The objective of this study was to comprehensively review school-based interventions that reported study results in terms of response and identify definitions of response used. A scoping review was conducted using a systematic search of five scientific databases from 2009 to 2021. Inclusion criteria included randomized controlled trial design, school-based setting, weight-based outcomes (e.g., BMI, BMI z-score), weight-based outcomes analysed among youth with overweight/obesity, a study condu

SUBMITTER: Arlinghaus KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669238 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature