Intervention category and description of interventions identified by review | Nuffield intervention ladder definitiona |
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Trans fat law: Restriction of all food service establishments, including both chain and non‐chain food outlets, from using, storing or serving food that contains partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and has a total of 0.5 g or more trans fat per serving | Restrict choice |
Changing pre‐packed children's meal content: Pre‐packed meal content changed to include healthier options, smaller portion sizes of less healthy options and/or removal of other less healthy options | Restrict choice |
Food outlet award schemes: Interventions that include an assessment of food outlet practice(s) using predefined criteria, together with some sort of accreditation if the food outlet met the criteria | Restrict choice (variable depending on scheme, but those included in this review were all categorized as restrict choice) |
Price increases for unhealthier choices: Price increase applied to less healthy menu options | Guide choice (disincentives) |
Incentive (contingent reward): A conditional reward is provided only after the target behaviour (e.g. choice of a healthier option) is performed | Guide choice (incentives) |
Price reductions for healthier choices: Price reduction applied to healthier menu options | Guide choice (incentives) |
Signposting: Interventions that highlighted to customers the healthier, or less healthy, menu options available | Enable choice |
Telemarketing of healthy food choices: Phone‐based direct marketing strategy; variety of free services offered to businesses including menu guidelines for the provision of healthy choices | Enable choice |
Calorie labelling law: Mandatory posting of calorie values of each option on menus in chain food outlets | Provide information |
Voluntary calorie labelling: Voluntary posting of calorie values of each option on menus in chain food outlets | Provide information |
Personalized receipts: Receipts that included personalized suggestions designed to reduce fat and calorie consumption | Provide information |
Definition from the Nuffield ladder 18 starting with the most intrusive; eliminate choice, restrict choice, guide choice (disincentives), guide choice (incentives), guide choice (default policy), enable choice, provide information, do nothing.