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| Title |
Long term effects of a health promotion intervention in low socioeconomic Arab- Israeli kindergartens
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| Published in |
BMC Pediatrics, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2431-13-45 |
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| Authors |
Dan Nemet, Dganit Geva, Michal Pantanowitz, Narmen Igbaria, Yoav Meckel, Alon Eliakim |
| Abstract |
BACKGROUND: Obesity is the most common chronic pediatric disease in westernized, especially low socioeconomic societies. We previously demonstrated the beneficial effects of a randomized prospective school-based health education program for low socioeconomic status Arab-Israeli kindergarten children. METHODS: To examine whether the effects of our program on nutrition and physical activity knowledge and preferences, anthropometric measures, and fitness persisted one year after the end of intervention.We were able to perform the one year follow-up in 203 kindergarten children (59% of our 342 original cohort; 85 control, 118 intervention). RESULTS: At one year following the intervention BMI and BMI percentiles approached baseline level in both the intervention (16.4+/-0.2 kg/m2 and 61.5+/-2.4%, respectively) and control group participants (16.5+/-0.2 kg/m2 and 58.5+/-3.3%, respectively). Yet, a year after the end of the intervention, the decrease in BMI%ile from baseline was significantly greater in the intervention group (-7.8+/-1.5 vs. -1.9+/-1.9, p<0.012). Nutritional and physical activity knowledge and preferences, and physical fitness remained significantly elevated in the intervention compared to the control group participants. CONCLUSIONS: The beneficial effects of a kindergarten dietary-physical activity intervention applied by the kindergarten teachers, on nutrition and physical activity knowledge and preferences, fitness, and BMI percentile were evident one year after the end of intervention. This promising program may play a role in health promotion, prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 33% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |
| Italy | 1 | 11% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 44% |
| Scientists | 2 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Serbia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 165 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 11% |
| Researcher | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 29 | 17% |
| Unknown | 45 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 14% |
| Sports and Recreations | 15 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 7% |
| Psychology | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 22 | 13% |
| Unknown | 51 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2022.
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#6,589,770
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#1,240
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#54,124
of 202,435 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#17
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