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| Title |
Impact of school policies on non-communicable disease risk factors – a systematic review
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-017-4201-3 |
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| Authors |
Ankur Singh, Shalini Bassi, Gaurang P. Nazar, Kiran Saluja, MinHae Park, Sanjay Kinra, Monika Arora |
| Abstract |
Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are identified as one of the leading causes of mortality. NCDs have several modifiable risk factors including unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use and alcohol abuse. Schools provide ideal settings for health promotion, but the effectiveness of school policies in the reduction of risk factors for NCD is not clear. This study reviewed the literature on the impact of school policies on major NCD risk factors. A systematic review was conducted to identify, collate and synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of school policies on reduction of NCD risk factors. A search strategy was developed to identify the relevant studies on effectiveness of NCD policies in schools for children between the age of 6 to 18 years in Ovid Medline, EMBASE, and Web of Science. Data extraction was conducted using pre-piloted forms. Studies included in the review were assessed for methodological quality using the Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) quality assessment tool. A narrative synthesis according to the types of outcomes was conducted to present the evidence on the effectiveness of school policies. Overall, 27 out of 2633 identified studies were included in the review. School policies were comparatively more effective in reducing unhealthy diet, tobacco use, physical inactivity and inflammatory biomarkers as opposed to anthropometric measures, overweight/obesity, and alcohol use. In total, for 103 outcomes independently evaluated within these studies, 48 outcomes (46%) had significant desirable changes when exposed to the school policies. Based on the quality assessment, 18 studies were categorized as weak, six as moderate and three as having strong methodological quality. Mixed findings were observed concerning effectiveness of school policies in reducing NCD risk factors. The findings demonstrate that schools can be a good setting for initiating positive changes in reducing NCD risk factors, but more research is required with long-term follow up to study the sustainability of such changes. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 43% |
| Australia | 2 | 14% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 390 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 390 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 67 | 17% |
| Researcher | 48 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 5% |
| Other | 64 | 16% |
| Unknown | 119 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 93 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 71 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 25 | 6% |
| Sports and Recreations | 15 | 4% |
| Psychology | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 46 | 12% |
| Unknown | 129 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 04 May 2021.
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#2,986,711
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#3,495
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#52,516
of 314,599 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#50
of 181 outputs
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