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Efficacy of school-based interventions aimed at decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among adolescents: a systematic review

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Vézina-Im, Lydi-Anne, Beaulieu, Dominique, Bélanger-Gravel, Ariane, Boucher, Danielle, Sirois, Caroline, Dugas, Marylène, Provencher, Véronique·2017·Public Health Nutrition

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Objective: To verify the efficacy of school-based interventions aimed at reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption among adolescents in order to develop or improve public health interventions. Design: Systematic review of interventions targeting adolescents and/or the school environment. Setting: The following databases were investigated: MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and EMBASE. Proquest Dissertations and Theses was also investigated for unpublished trials. Subjects: Adolescents were defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 17 years. Results: A total of thirty-six studies detailing thirty-six different interventions tested among independent samples (n 152 001) were included in the review. Twenty interventions were classified as educational/behavioural and ten were classified as legislative/environmental interventions. Only six interventions targeted both individuals and their environment. Over 70 % of all interventions, regardless of whether they targeted individuals, their environment or both, were effective in decreasing SSB consumption. Legislative/environmental studies had the highest success rate (90·0 %). Educational/behavioural interventions only and interventions that combined educational/behavioural and legislative/environmental approaches were almost equally effective in reducing SSB consumption with success rates of 65·0 and 66·7 %, respectively. Among the interventions that had an educational/behavioural component, 61·5 % were theory-based. The behaviour change techniques most frequently used in interventions were providing information about the health consequences of performing the behaviour (72·2 %), restructuring the physical environment (47·2 %), behavioural goal setting (36·1 %), self-monitoring of behaviour (33·3 %), threat to health (30·6 %) and providing general social support (30·6 %). Conclusions: School-based interventions show promising results to reduce SSB consumption among adolescents. A number of recommendations are made to improve future studies.

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Authors
Vézina-Im, L.-A., Beaulieu, D., Bélanger-Gravel, A., Boucher, D., Sirois, C., Dugas, M., & Provencher, V.
Affiliations
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski (CA)
  • Quebec Research and Development Centre (CA)
  • Université Laval (CA)
Venue
Public Health Nutrition
Published
2017-02-08
Volume
20
Issue
13
Pages
2416-2431
ISSN
  • 1368-9800 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-2727
OpenAlex
W2586227688
Cited by
106
References
137
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FWCI
1.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Public Health Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Corpus Université Laval (Université Laval) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
Keywords
sugar-sweetened beverages, school-based intervention, adolescents, health education, behaviour change techniques, environmental interventions, legislation, theory-based intervention, self-monitoring, goal setting
MeSH terms
Healthy Lifestyle, Diet, Healthy, Dietary Sugars, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Beverages, Child, Child Behavior, Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Choice Behavior, Humans, Patient Compliance, Schools, Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Evidence-Based Medicine

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