Abstract

Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare service.

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  • Secondary outcomes Costs or cost-effectiveness; adverse outcomes; diet, physical activity or weight in children; the acceptability, penetration, diffusion, sustainability and appropriateness of implementation strategies

  • Pooled evidence ranged from low certainty to moderate certainty judged using GRADE (The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation), with a risk of bias, which was generally unclear for most aspects of the studies and high for dietary intake outcomes

  • Evidence from nine RCTs suggested an improvement in the implementation of programmes promoting child healthy eating, physical activity and/or obesity (SMD 0.49; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.19, 0.79; n = 495, moderate certainty evidence) and in the proportion of services or staff implementing a policy or practice

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Cite this article: Trivedi D. (2021) Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare service. (2021) Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare service. Primary Health Care Research & Development 22(e15): 1–2.

Daksha Trivedi
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