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Hungry for an intervention? Adolescents’ ratings of acceptability of eating-related intervention strategies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2016
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Title
Hungry for an intervention? Adolescents’ ratings of acceptability of eating-related intervention strategies
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BMC Public Health, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2665-6
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F. Marijn Stok, Denise T. D. de Ridder, Emely de Vet, Liliya Nureeva, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Jane Wardle, Tania Gaspar, John B. F. de Wit

Abstract

Effective interventions promoting healthier eating behavior among adolescents are urgently needed. One factor that has been shown to impact effectiveness is whether the target population accepts the intervention. While previous research has assessed adults' acceptance of eating-related interventions, research on the opinion of adolescents is lacking. The current study addressed this gap in the literature. Two thousand seven hundred sixty four adolescents (aged 10-17 years) from four European countries answered questions about individual characteristics (socio-demographics, anthropometrics, and average daily intake of healthy and unhealthy foods) and the acceptability of ten eating-related intervention strategies. These strategies varied in type (either promoting healthy eating or discouraging unhealthy eating), level of intrusiveness, setting (home, school, broader out-of-home environment), and change agent (parents, teacher, policy makers). Based on adolescents' acceptability ratings, strategies could be clustered into two categories, those promoting healthy eating and those discouraging unhealthy eating, with acceptability rated significantly higher for the former. Acceptability of intervention strategies was rated moderate on average, but higher among girls, younger, overweight and immigrant adolescents, and those reporting healthier eating. Polish and Portuguese adolescents were overall more accepting of strategies than UK and Dutch adolescents. Adolescents preferred intervention strategies that promote healthy eating over strategies that discourage unhealthy eating. Level of intrusiveness affected acceptability ratings for the latter type of strategies only. Various individual and behavioral characteristics were associated with acceptability. These findings provide practical guidance for the selection of acceptable intervention strategies to improve adolescents' eating behavior.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 186 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 38 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 15%
Researcher 20 11%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 4%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 53 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 30 16%
Psychology 27 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 12%
Social Sciences 15 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 5%
Other 19 10%
Unknown 63 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 18 August 2016.
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#6,427,984
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#6,776
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#103,867
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#112
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