Primary School Children’s Nutrition Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Behavior, after a Three-Year Healthy Lifestyle Intervention (HealthKick)

Villiers, Anniza de; Steyn, Nelia P.; Draper, Catherine E.; Hill, Jillian; Gwebushe, Nomonde; Lambert, Estelle V.; Lombard, Carl

doi:10.18865/ed.26.2.171

Cited by 44 publications

(88 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Eighteen full text articles were reviewed and 10 studies that met the inclusion criteria were retained in this review. Two of these studies evaluated the same intervention [24,25]. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the included studies.…”

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Table 1 shows the characteristics of the included studies. This systematic review included 10 studies conducted among 9957 children and adolescents in two African countries, namely South Africa [24][25][26][27][28][29] and Tunisia [30][31][32][33]. The included studies were published between 2009 and 2017.…”

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The included studies were published between 2009 and 2017. Four of the studies were described as randomised control trials (RCTs) [24,25,28,33], five were pre-and post-test quasi-experiments [26,27,[30][31][32], and one did not report the design [29]. Two of the studies were pilot studies to evaluate the feasibility of the interventions [26,27].…”

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

School-Based Interventions Targeting Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Body Weight Status of African Children: A Systematic Review

et al. 2019

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Overweight/obesity is an emerging health concern among African children. The aim of this study was to summarise available evidence from school-based interventions that focused on improving nutrition and physical activity knowledge, attitude, and behaviours, and weight status of children aged 6-15 years in the African context. Methods: Multiple databases were searched for studies evaluating school-based interventions of African origin that involved diet alone, physical activity alone, or multicomponent interventions, for at least 12 weeks in duration, reporting changes in either diet, physical activity, or body composition, and published between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2018. No language restrictions were applied. Relevant data from eligible studies were extracted. Narrative synthesis was used to analyse and describe the data. Results: This systematic review included nine interventions comprising 10 studies. Studies were conducted among 9957 children and adolescents in two African countries, namely South Africa and Tunisia, and were generally of low methodological quality. The sample size at baseline ranged from 28 to 4003 participants. Two interventions reported enrolling children from both urban and rural areas. The majority of the study participants were elementary or primary school children and adolescents in grades 4 to 6. Participants were between the ages of 12.4 and 13.5 years. All but one intervention targeted children of both sexes. Four studies were described as randomised control trials, while five were pre-and post-test quasi-experiments. Except for one study that involved the community as a secondary setting, all were primarily school-based studies. The duration of the interventions ranged from four months to three years. The interventions focused largely on weight-related behaviours, while a few targeted weight status. The results of the effectiveness of these interventions were inconsistent: three of five studies that evaluated weight status (body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score, overweight/obesity prevalence), three of six studies that reported physical activity outcomes (number of sports activities, and physical activity duration ≥ 30 min for at least six days/week), and four of six reporting on nutrition-related outcomes (number meeting fruit and vegetable intake ≥ 5 times/day) found beneficial effects of the interventions. Conclusion: Given the dearth of studies and the inconsistent results, definite conclusions about the overall effectiveness and evidence could not be made. Nonetheless, this study has identified research gaps in the childhood obesity literature in Africa and strengthened the need for further studies, the findings of which would contribute valuable data and inform policy.

show abstract

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Description Of the Included Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

School-Based Interventions Targeting Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Body Weight Status of African Children: A Systematic Review

et al. 2019

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The questions were chosen after a literature review concerning PRECEDE–PROCEED model, nutrition knowledge, predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors, self‐efficacy, attitude and behaviour related to child malnutrition. For selecting the items, the available scales were used or further investigations were conducted, especially for reinforcing and enabling constructs, to fully present the subject based on the model.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Developing the questionnaire item pool: The questions were chosen after a literature review concerning PRECEDE-PROCEED model, nutrition knowledge, predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors, self-efficacy, attitude and behaviour related to child malnutrition. For selecting the items, the available scales were used [7][8][9][10][11][12] or further investigations were conducted, especially for reinforcing and enabling constructs, to fully present the subject based on the model. In this part, the predisposing factors (antecedents to behaviour that make motivation to engage in specific health related attributes, including knowledge, attitudes and selfefficacy related to malnutrition), enabling factors (those that facilitate occurrence of the health behaviour, such as resources, skills and supportive policies that are essential to perform the action) and reinforcing factors (that perform as reward and incentive for the persistence of the health behaviour, such as impact from significant others including parents, peers, teachers) were identified.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on nutritional monitoring of Persian malnourished school students: A check on reproducibility and validity of questionnaire

Ashourpour

Kaveh

Salehi

et al. 2017

Nutrition & Dietetics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The results showed reasonable validity, excellent reliability and moderate to substantial reproducibility for all scales of the questionnaire except two questions for κ statistics. The present study is of great importance, as there are no psychometrically evaluated tools (based on health behaviour models) with accepted validity and reliability for the evaluation of such factors in children with malnutrition. The questionnaire developed in the present study can be used to assess the effect of intervention among primary school students with malnutrition.

show abstract

Interventions for preventing obesity in children

Brown

Moore

Hooper

et al. 2019

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

1,164

609

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background Obesity prevention is an international public health priority. The prevalence of obesity and overweight is increasing in child populations throughout the world, impacting on short and long-term health. Obesity prevention strategies for children can change behaviour but efficacy in terms of preventing obesity remains poorly understood. Objectives To assess the effectiveness of interventions designed to prevent obesity in childhood through diet, physical activity and/or lifestyle and social support. Search strategy MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL and CENTRAL were searched from 1990 to February 2005. Non-English language papers were included and experts contacted. Selection criteria Randomised controlled trials and controlled clinical trials with minimum duration twelve weeks. Data collection and analysis Two reviewers independently extracted data and assessed study quality. Main results Twenty-two studies were included; ten long-term (at least 12 months) and twelve short-term (12 weeks to 12 months). Nineteen were school/preschool-based interventions, one was a community-based intervention targeting low-income families, and two were familybased interventions targeting non-obese children of obese or overweight parents. Six of the ten long-term studies combined dietary education and physical activity interventions; five resulted in no difference in overweight status between groups and one resulted in improvements for girls receiving the intervention, but not boys. Two studies Interventions for preventing obesity in children (Review)

show abstract

Primary School Children’s Nutrition Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Behavior, after a Three-Year Healthy Lifestyle Intervention (HealthKick)

Cited by 44 publications

References 32 publications

School-Based Interventions Targeting Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Body Weight Status of African Children: A Systematic Review

School-Based Interventions Targeting Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Body Weight Status of African Children: A Systematic Review

Study on nutritional monitoring of Persian malnourished school students: A check on reproducibility and validity of questionnaire

Interventions for preventing obesity in children

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About