Childhood Obesity interventions (Literature review)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My thanks go out to all who have helped me complete this study and with whom this project may have not been possible. In particular, my gratitude goes out to friends, facilitator and family for extensive and helpful comments on early drafts. I am also deeply indebted to the authors who have shared my interest and preceded me. Their works provided me with a host of information to learn from and build upon, also served as examples to emulate.

DECLARATION

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ABSTRACT

This research has been done on ten articles found from secondary sources. The research has been done on the topic of childhood obesity intervention. The researcher did extensive research on the ten articles and came up to meaningful conclusion. The research questions included what is the combined effect of dietary education and physical activity intervention on the school children aged between 5 to 17 years? What is the impact of dietary educational interventions against control on BMI on the school children aged between 5 to 17 years? What are the long term and short term impacts of physical activity interventions on the school children aged between 5 to 17 years? The research concluded on note that a combination of physical activity and dietary education is the best intervention for childhood obesity.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Aims3

Objectives3

Research question4

Structure of Dissertation4

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Literature Critique6

Authors7

Titles and Abstracts7

Ethical Considerations8

Purpose/Problem of Study9

Literature Review9

Sample and Design13

Results14

CHAPTER 03: METHODS18

Methodology18

Rationale19

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria19

Literature Sources20

Key Words21

CHAPTER 04: FINDINGS22

CHAPTER 05: EVALUATION24

CHAPTER 06: DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION26

Discussion and Conclusion26

Recommendation29

REFERENCES30

APPENDICES33

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

For the past twenty years, the prevalence of obesity and overweight children have increased on a national and global scale and has been termed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a global epidemic which is a threat to public health. The rising prevalence of childhood obesity is now at record level and as such, contributes to poor health outcomes (Van 2007, pp. 335). these days obesity is a major serious public health problem and a challenge and is prevalent both in developed and developing countries, with children as well as adults affected. (Aveyard 2007, pp. 35, Aveyard 2010, pp. 45)

In the United Kingdom (UK) since 1980s, obesity has nearly trebled and is still growing. In year 2001 8.5% of six year-olds and 15% of 15-year olds were obese (Greenhalgh 2010, pp. 95, Katz 2008, pp.1780, Miles 2007, 314). Statistics show that in England, childhood obesity rose by almost 5% between 1995 and 2004 and it was estimated then that 1 in 5 children will become obese by the year 2010, if no action was taken. In 1998, an estimated £2.6 billion was spent on sickness attributed to obesity and with the current trends, this was assumed to rise ...