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Table 5 Specific objectives for nutrition, physical activity and body weight of 13 community-based interventions that provided information on effectiveness

From: Overview of 71 European community-based initiatives against childhood obesity starting between 2005 and 2011: general characteristics and reported effects

Name project (reference)

Effects1

Period2

Topics activities were targeted at (see below for the legend):

   

Nutrition

Physical activity

Body weight

   

A1

A2

A3

A4

B1

B2

B3

B4

B5

C1

C2

C3

C4

C5

General population :

                

ICAPS [18]

+

2011-14

    

*

*

*

       

Movi [19]

+

2004-06

      

*

 

*

*

*

   

Copenhagen school child [22]3

-

2001-08

              

EPODE [23]

+

2004-14

*

*

*

*

 

*

*

       

Children study [24]

+

2005-06

*

 

*

*

  

*

 

*

*

*

 

*

*

B-fit [25]

+

2008-

 

*

*

*

*

 

*

  

*

   

*

GO-Overvecht [26]

+

2005-10

 

*

*

*

   

*

      

Slagkracht [27]

+

2010-12

*

*

*

*

*

 

*

*

 

*

*

*

*

*

Jönköping county [28]

+ ?

2004-

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

Overweight or obese children:

                

Alive ‘n’Kicking [29]

+

2006-

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

Integrated Obesity Care Pathway - A Whole Systems Approach

+

2005-

*

*

*

*

     

*

*

*

*

*

MEND [30, 31]

+

2004-11

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

Fun 4 life [32]

+/-

2004-

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

  1. 1Effects on body weight, BMI, and/or overweight prevalence (+is positive effects; − is no effect); 2Period of implementation of CBI activities (note: not necessarily the same as the period that the research was performed regarding effectiveness); 3reported a focus on “physical activity in general”;.
  2. Objectives nutrition: A1 = Healthy diet in general, A2 = food intake patterns, A3 = Single food items (e.g. fruits), A4 = High caloric foods.
  3. Objectives Physical activity: B1 = Sports/exercise, B2 = Walking and/or cycling, B3 = Outdoor play, B4 = TV watching ,B5 = Cardiorespiratory fitness.
  4. Objectives body weight:C1 = Energy balance in general (involving both diet and physical activity), C2 = Psychological aspects (self esteem), C3 = Preventing unhealthy slimming behaviour, C4 = (Preventing) stigmatizing of children having obesity (e.g. bullying), C5 = Improving coping skills, empowerment of children (e.g. increasing awareness of obesogenic influences by TV commercials).
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