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Published in final edited form as: Obes Rev. 2021 Sep 1;22(12):e13335. doi: 10.1111/obr.13335

Table 7.

Meta-summary of facilitators for children participation in nutrition, physical activity, and obesity interventions

Theme	Numbers of studies	GRADE and GRADE- CERQual^a	References
Parents’ and children’s perspectives
Benefit to others and themselves (altruism)	5	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual: Moderate	^{29,42,45,47,48}
Compensation/incentives	4	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual Moderate	^{31,35,41,42,45}
Nature of the Intervention	3	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual: Moderate	^29,30,42
Support from family and friends	3	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual: Moderate	^30,41,49
Time and location of the study	2	GRADE: N/A GRADE-CERQual: N/A	^41,42
Physician recommendations/Referral	1	GRADE: N/A GRADE-CERQual: N/A	⁴⁶
Research staff’s perspective
Physician recommendations/referral	4	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual: N/A	^28,40,46,51
Compensation/ incentives	2	GRADE: High GRADE-CERQual: N/A	^37,50
Location of the study	1	GRADE: N/A GRADE-CERQual N/A	³⁶

GRADE and GRADE-CERQual was done among themes with more than one study. N/A: not available because there were not enough studies of each type to evaluate certainty of the theme.