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Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 6, p e0233908 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Background This paper investigates actions that combine nutrition and physical activity which hold potential for ‘double duty action’ to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously. Expanding on previous research on single component actions, we assessed the state of the literature to map integrated interventions across the life course to analyse potential double duty effects, and identify knowledge gaps and needs for future design, implementation, evaluation and research for effective double duty action. Methods A scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature was conducted to explore the pathways that extend from combined physical activity and nutrition promotion interventions, with potential synergistic effects on outcomes other than obesity. Electronic databases were searched for studies published between 1 January 2010 and 31 January 2020. Out of 359 articles retrieved, 31 peer-reviewed and 5 grey literature sources met inclusion criteria. Findings from 36 papers reporting on 34 interventions/initiatives were organised into 6 categories, based on implementation across multiple stages of the life course. Double-duty potential was assessed through a further stage of analysis. Findings This review has identified actions that hold potential for tackling not only obesity, but healthy diets, sedentary behaviour and quality of life more generally, as well as actions that explicitly tackle multiple forms of malnutrition. Importantly, it has identified crucial gaps in current methods and praxis that call for further practice-oriented research, in order to better understand and exploit the synergistic effects of integrated interventions on outcomes other than obesity. Conclusions Findings from across implementation settings suggest that even in situations where interventions are aimed at, or framed in terms of, obesity prevention and control, there are unexploited pathways for broader outcomes of relevance to nutrition and health and wellbeing more generally. Future design and evaluation of multisectoral approaches will benefit from an explicit framing of interventions as double-duty oriented.
- Subjects :
- Physiology
Applied psychology
Psychological intervention
Social Sciences
Global Burden of Disease
Families
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Children
Duty
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Schools
Multidisciplinary
Praxis
Grey literature
Physiological Parameters
Medicine
Life course approach
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Psychology
Research Article
Childhood Obesity
Science
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MEDLINE
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Health Promotion
Childhood obesity
Education
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
Obesity
Exercise
Nutrition
Malnutrition
Body Weight
Biology and Life Sciences
Feeding Behavior
Physical Activity
medicine.disease
Age Groups
People and Places
Quality of Life
Population Groupings
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....32979b093163133a3170fa34626d7235