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Understanding the Effectiveness of Dietary and Food Choice Interventions: A Review of Reviews

Project Code: N09028

01/02/2011

Oxford Evidentia
Davies, P ; MacPherson, K; Faruquie, D; Froud, E

The objectives of this review of reviews are as follows:
i. To determine what the existing scientific evidence tells us about the effectiveness of specific dietary behavioural and food choice interventions in terms of influencing people’s food choices and healthy eating.
ii. To determine what the existing scientific evidence tells us about the major factors that influence people’s food choices and healthy eating?
iii. To determine what the existing scientific evidence tells us about the barriers that people face in making healthier dietary choices?
iv. To identify issues about behavioural change interventions that may have potential for the Food Standards Agency in terms of future investigation, testing and research.

Research Questions

The research questions developed to address the above objectives are as follows. What does the existing body of systematic review evidence tell us about:
i. The effectiveness of dietary and food choice interventions?
ii. The contextual factors of effective interventions of dietary and food choice interventions? Specifically, what interventions have been shown to be effective in supermarket and catering settings, schools, primary care settings, the workplace, and community settings?
iii. The barriers to implementing effective interventions of dietary and food choice interventions?
iv. The facilitators for implementing effective interventions of dietary and food choice interventions?
v. The range of effect sizes of dietary and food choice interventions?
vi. The correlates of healthy eating and a good diet?
vii. Any other findings that might inform policy and practice on effective interventions of dietary and food choice interventions?
viii. The types of behavioural models used by effective dietary and food choice interventions?

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