Behavioural strategies to encourage dietary change in primary school aged children to prevent obesity

Systematic Review
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Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................4
Title - "Behavioural strategies to encourage dietary change in primary school aged children to
prevent obesity"...............................................................................................................................4
1. Introduction to review subject.....................................................................................................4
1.1 Childhood Obesity.................................................................................................................4
1.2 Behavioural strategies to encourage dietary change to prevent obesity................................5
1.3 Rationale for review..............................................................................................................6
2. Materials and Methods................................................................................................................7
2.1 Search Strategy......................................................................................................................7
2.2 Selection criteria....................................................................................................................7
2.3 Data extraction.......................................................................................................................8
2.4 Primary and secondary outcomes..........................................................................................8
2.5 Quality assessment and risk of bias.......................................................................................9
3. Presentations of results/ Findings................................................................................................9
3.1 Database search.....................................................................................................................9
3.2 Characteristics of the studies...............................................................................................10
3.3 Risk of bias in included studies...........................................................................................10
3.4 Main outcomes of intervention effects................................................................................10
4. Data interpretation and discussion.............................................................................................11
4.1 Main Findings......................................................................................................................11
4.2 Limitations of the current review........................................................................................14
4.3 Directions for further research.............................................................................................14
5. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................16
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Abstract
Obesity in childhood is now becoming a global issue all over the world and the major
factors which affect regulation of weight and development of obesity among children are the
outcome of large number of environmental, social, economic, behavioural and biological factors
as well as the complex interactions among them which promote positive balance of energy. The
alterations in dietary habits along with sedentary lifestyle adoption increases manifold diseases
related to obesity as well as complications associated with them. An obese child grows up and
become an obese adult. Thus, primary prevention with methodical diet control play a significant
role in reducing the chances of obesity. Apart from this physical activity and behavioural
changes are also important strategies that help in battle against childhood obesity. In this
systematic literature review, the behavioural strategies to promote dietary change children are
reviewed for addressing the issue of obesity in children and preventing it. In order to effectively
intervene with obese and overweight children, it is very important that the primary care givers as
well as the behavioural interventionists work in order to execute healthy behaviours among
children and encourage dietary change among them in order to prevent obesity.
Title - "Behavioural strategies to encourage dietary change in primary school
aged children to prevent obesity"
1. Introduction to review subject
1.1 Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity in developing and developed countries has reached epidemic level.
Around 70% of adolescent grow up obese and become obese adults. From last 20 to 30 years,
increasingly high overweight and obesity rates have been reported irrespective of income status
and socioeconomic status. An increasing evidence of plateauing is also seen in some of the age
groups (Maiz, Urkia-Susin, Urdaneta, and Allirot, 2021). The forces participating in obesity
development and weight regulation in children involved environmental factors, developmental
and genetic influences. The relative significance of each of the mechanism is subject of
continuous research as well as probably varies considerably among populations and individuals.
The quickly changing habits of diet with sedentary lifestyle adoption maximizes enormously the
non-communicable diseases related to obesity involving type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin
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