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Health Promotion Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity

Standard evaluation framework for physical activity interventions

By National Obesity Observatory ( September 2012)

These SEFs aim to describe and explain the information that should be collected in any evaluation of an intervention that aims to increase participation in physical activity. It is aimed at interventions that work at individual or group level, not at population level.

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Children Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity Young People

Study protocol of a parent-focused child feeding and dietary intake intervention: the feeding healthy food to kids randomised controlled trial

Duncanson, K et al. BMC Public Health, 2012; 12: 564

The Feeding Healthy Food to Kids (FHFK) Randomised Control Trial (RCT) examines the impact of providing low cost, self-directed nutrition and parenting resources to rural parents, on child dietary intake and parent-child feeding practices.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity

Associations of television viewing with eating behaviours in the 2009 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study

Lipsky, L.M. et al. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 2012; 166(5): pp 465-472

This article examine associations of television viewing with eating behaviors in a representative sample of US adolescents. It found television viewing was associated with a cluster of unhealthy eating behaviors in US adolescents after adjustment for socioeconomic and behavioral covariates.

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