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. 2014 Jul 28;14:758. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-758

Table 5.

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

Name project (reference) Effects 1 Period 2 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- * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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”;.

Objectives nutrition: A1 = Healthy diet in general, A2 = food intake patterns, A3 = Single food items (e.g. fruits), A4 = High caloric foods.

Objectives Physical activity: B1 = Sports/exercise, B2 = Walking and/or cycling, B3 = Outdoor play, B4 = TV watching ,B5 = Cardiorespiratory fitness.

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).