Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review

Background: This paper investigates actions that combine nutrition and physical activity which hold potential for ‘double duty action’ to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously. Expanding on previous research on single component actions, we assessed the state of the literature to map i...

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Main Authors: Casu, Laura, Gillespie, Stuart, Nisbett, Nicholas
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142855
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Gillespie, Stuart
Nisbett, Nicholas
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description Background: This paper investigates actions that combine nutrition and physical activity which hold potential for ‘double duty action’ to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously. Expanding on previous research on single component actions, we assessed the state of the literature to map integrated interventions across the life course to analyse potential double duty effects, and identify knowledge gaps and needs for future design, implementation, evaluation and research for effective double duty action. Methods: A scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature was conducted to explore the pathways that extend from combined physical activity and nutrition promotion interventions, with potential synergistic effects on outcomes other than obesity. Electronic databases were searched for studies published between 1 January 2010 and 31 January 2020. Out of 359 articles retrieved, 31 peer-reviewed and 5 grey literature sources met inclusion criteria. Findings from 36 papers reporting on 34 interventions/initiatives were organised into 6 categories, based on implementation across multiple stages of the life course. Double-duty potential was assessed through a further stage of analysis. Findings: This review has identified actions that hold potential for tackling not only obesity, but healthy diets, sedentary behaviour and quality of life more generally, as well as actions that explicitly tackle multiple forms of malnutrition. Importantly, it has identified crucial gaps in current methods and praxis that call for further practice-oriented research, in order to better understand and exploit the synergistic effects of integrated interventions on outcomes other than obesity. Conclusions: Findings from across implementation settings suggest that even in situations where interventions are aimed at, or framed in terms of, obesity prevention and control, there are unexploited pathways for broader outcomes of relevance to nutrition and health and wellbeing more generally. Future design and evaluation of multisectoral approaches will benefit from an explicit framing of interventions as double-duty oriented.
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spelling CGSpace1428552025-01-24T14:20:35Z Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review Casu, Laura Gillespie, Stuart Nisbett, Nicholas health healthy diets physical activity malnutrition nutrition weight reduction obesity Background: This paper investigates actions that combine nutrition and physical activity which hold potential for ‘double duty action’ to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously. Expanding on previous research on single component actions, we assessed the state of the literature to map integrated interventions across the life course to analyse potential double duty effects, and identify knowledge gaps and needs for future design, implementation, evaluation and research for effective double duty action. Methods: A scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature was conducted to explore the pathways that extend from combined physical activity and nutrition promotion interventions, with potential synergistic effects on outcomes other than obesity. Electronic databases were searched for studies published between 1 January 2010 and 31 January 2020. Out of 359 articles retrieved, 31 peer-reviewed and 5 grey literature sources met inclusion criteria. Findings from 36 papers reporting on 34 interventions/initiatives were organised into 6 categories, based on implementation across multiple stages of the life course. Double-duty potential was assessed through a further stage of analysis. Findings: This review has identified actions that hold potential for tackling not only obesity, but healthy diets, sedentary behaviour and quality of life more generally, as well as actions that explicitly tackle multiple forms of malnutrition. Importantly, it has identified crucial gaps in current methods and praxis that call for further practice-oriented research, in order to better understand and exploit the synergistic effects of integrated interventions on outcomes other than obesity. Conclusions: Findings from across implementation settings suggest that even in situations where interventions are aimed at, or framed in terms of, obesity prevention and control, there are unexploited pathways for broader outcomes of relevance to nutrition and health and wellbeing more generally. Future design and evaluation of multisectoral approaches will benefit from an explicit framing of interventions as double-duty oriented. 2020-07-01 2024-05-22T12:11:11Z 2024-05-22T12:11:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142855 en Open Access Public Library of Science Casu, Laura; Gillespie, Stuart; and Nisbett, Nicholas. 2020. Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0233908. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233908
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healthy diets
physical activity
malnutrition
nutrition
weight reduction
obesity
Casu, Laura
Gillespie, Stuart
Nisbett, Nicholas
Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
title Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
title_full Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
title_fullStr Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
title_full_unstemmed Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
title_short Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
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topic health
healthy diets
physical activity
malnutrition
nutrition
weight reduction
obesity
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