School-based interventions for obesity: Current approaches and future prospects

✍ Scribed by M. Chris Wolf; Kenneth R. Cohen; Joseph G. Rosenfeld

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 846 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(198504)22:2<187::aid-pits2310220213>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

Obesity is a serious, prevalent, and recurring disorder that affects many school children. There are numerous physical, and perhaps psychosocial, difficulties associated with being overweight. This article examines three major types of intervention strategies that have been utilized in school-based weight-reduction programs. Behavior modification, dietary control/nutrition education, and physical activities have been successfully combined in multifaceted obesity interventions to produce modest weight loss. Improved research designs, long-term follow-up, further examination of social supports, and prevention strategies are needed.