Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour

The objectives of this meta-analysis were to provide an overview of the evidence regarding the effects of interventions, implemented in the school- and general population setting, aiming to prevent excessive sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents on (1) the amount of sedentary behaviour and...

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Main Authors: van Grieken, Amy, Ezendam, Nicole PM, Paulis, Winifred D, van der Wouden, Johannes C, Raat, Hein
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462110/
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spelling pubmed-34621102012-10-02 Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour van Grieken, Amy Ezendam, Nicole PM Paulis, Winifred D van der Wouden, Johannes C Raat, Hein Review The objectives of this meta-analysis were to provide an overview of the evidence regarding the effects of interventions, implemented in the school- and general population setting, aiming to prevent excessive sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents on (1) the amount of sedentary behaviour and (2) BMI. Differences in effects on sedentary behaviour and BMI between single health behaviour interventions (sedentary behaviour only) and multiple health behaviour interventions were explored. BioMed Central 2012-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3462110/ /pubmed/22640437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-9-61 Text en Copyright ©2012 van Grieken et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author van Grieken, Amy
Ezendam, Nicole PM
Paulis, Winifred D
van der Wouden, Johannes C
Raat, Hein
spellingShingle van Grieken, Amy
Ezendam, Nicole PM
Paulis, Winifred D
van der Wouden, Johannes C
Raat, Hein
Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
author_facet van Grieken, Amy
Ezendam, Nicole PM
Paulis, Winifred D
van der Wouden, Johannes C
Raat, Hein
author_sort van Grieken, Amy
title Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
title_short Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
title_full Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
title_fullStr Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
title_sort primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour
description The objectives of this meta-analysis were to provide an overview of the evidence regarding the effects of interventions, implemented in the school- and general population setting, aiming to prevent excessive sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents on (1) the amount of sedentary behaviour and (2) BMI. Differences in effects on sedentary behaviour and BMI between single health behaviour interventions (sedentary behaviour only) and multiple health behaviour interventions were explored.
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2012
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462110/
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