Study | Involvement | Policy components | Impact† | Results | Sig | |||||
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Stakeholder* | Family | BMI-SDS | Ov | Ob | BF | BMIHFZ | Statistic (95% confidence interval) unless otherwise stated | |||
Diet policies | ||||||||||
Foster, et al. 2008 [55] | ✓a,c,e,f,h | ✓ | School nutrition policy initiative |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.01 (-0.08,0.06) | |
Adjust odds ratio overweight 0.65 (0.54,0.79) | Sig | |||||||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 1.09 (0.85,1.40) | ||||||||||
Baxter, et al. 2009 [53] | Location of School Breakfast Program consumption |
| - | - | - | - | Δ mean BMI% breakfast in classroom compared to the cafeteria 2.64 (p=0.06) | |||
Henry, 2006 [50] | National School Lunch Program | - |
| - | - | - | Hedges’ g overweight 1.39 (0.55,2.24) | Sig | ||
Hernandez, Francis and Doyle, 2003 [41] | National School Lunch Program |
| - | - | - | - | Adjusted change in BMI Kindergarten: 0.12 (-0.33,0.57) | |||
Adjusted change in BMI 1st grade: 0.20 (-0.29,0.69) | ||||||||||
Adjusted change in BMI 3rd grade: 0.36 (-0.25,0.97) | ||||||||||
Adjusted change in BMI 5th grade: 0.52 (-0.24,1.28) | ||||||||||
Hinrichs, 2010 [47] | National School Lunch Program |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI ♂ -0.02 (-0.06,0.02), ♀ -0.02 (-0.07,0.03) | |||
Change in prevalence of overweight ♂ <-0.01 (-0.01,<0.01), ♀ <-0.01 (-0.01, <0.01) | ||||||||||
Change in prevalence of obesity ♂ <-0.01 (<-0.01, <0.01), ♀ <-0.01 (<-0.01, <0.01) | ||||||||||
Bivariate Probit results assuming ρ=0.1 | ||||||||||
National School Lunch Program, | - |
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| - | - | Change in probability of being overweight 0.13 (0.07, 0.20) | ||||
Change in probability of being obese 0.13 (0.05, 0.20) | ||||||||||
School Breakfast Program | - |
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| - | - | Change in probability of being overweight -0.07 (-0.14, <-0.01) | ||||
Change in probability of being obese -0.05 (-0.13, 0.03) | ||||||||||
Millimet and Tchernis, 2009 [42] | Bias corrected minimum bias estimator assuming θ=0.25 | |||||||||
School Breakfast Program |
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| - | - | Change in BMI growth rate 3rd grade: -0.03 (-0.06, <-0.01) | ||||
Change in probability of overweight 3rd grade: -0.21 (-0.33, -0.03) | ||||||||||
Change in probability of obesity 3rd grade: -0.17 (-0.26, -0.01) | ||||||||||
Change in BMI growth rate 5th grade: -0.04 (-0.08, 0.01) | ||||||||||
Change in probability of overweight 5th grade: -0.28 (-0.40, -0.09) | ||||||||||
Change in probability of obesity 5th grade: -0.12 (-0.28, -0.04) | ||||||||||
Ramirez-Lopez, et al. 2005 [54] | School Breakfast Program |
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| - | Change in BMI Intervention: 0.1, Control: -0.1 | |||
Change in BF% Intervention: -0.2, Control: -0.5 | ||||||||||
Change in prevalence of overweight or obesity Intervention: 1, Control: -1 | ||||||||||
Change prevalence of obesity Intervention: 1, Control:-3 | ||||||||||
Fox, et al. 2009 [56] | À la carte LNED food not available |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.15 (-0.37,0.07) | |||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 1.09 (0.57,2.08) | ||||||||||
Milk not available for school lunch |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.13 (-0.33,0.07) | ||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 1.17 (0.75,1.82) | ||||||||||
Fresh fruit/ raw vegetables available |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS 0.19 (0.01,0.37) | ||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 1.13 (0.73,1.75) | ||||||||||
Fried potato products not available |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS 0.20 (<0.01,0.40) | ||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 2.70 (1.58,4.62) | Sig | |||||||||
Desserts offered ≤once a week |
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| - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS 0.08 (-0.08,0.24) | ||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity 1.78 (1.13,2.80) | Sig | |||||||||
Jones, et al. 2003 [34] | Adjusted odds ratio overweight and obesity: | |||||||||
National School Lunch Program | - |
| - | - | Food secure ♂1.06 (0.53,2.08), ♀0.49 (0.22,1.10), | |||||
Food insecure ♂0.62 (0.25,1.54), ♀0.29 (0.11,0.80) | Sig♀ | |||||||||
School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs | - |
| - | - | Food secure ♂1.33 (0.81,2.18), ♀0.66 (0.35,1.26) | |||||
Food insecure ♂0.85 (0.42,1.74), ♀0.42 (0.19,0.96) | Sig♀ | |||||||||
Physical activity policies | ||||||||||
Donnelly, et al.2009 [62] | ✓h | Physical Activity Across the Curriculum |
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| - | - | BMI Hedges’ g 0.01 (-0.09,0.11) | ||
Heelan, et al. 2009 [61] | Walking school bus scheme |
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| - | Intervention vs. Control BMI-SDS Hedges’ g: -0.21 (-0.58,0.15) | |||
Frequent v. passive BMI-SDS Hedges’ g: -0.49 (-0.94,-0.03) | Sig | |||||||||
Infrequent v. passive BMI-SDS Hedges’ g: -0.17 (-0.61,0.28) | ||||||||||
Intervention vs. Control BF% Cohen’s d: -0.25 (-0.61,0.11) | ||||||||||
Frequent v. passive BF% Cohen’s d: -0.59 (-1.05,-0.13) | Sig | |||||||||
Infrequent v. passive BF% Cohen’s d: -0.28 (-0.72,0.17) | ||||||||||
Chiodera, et al.2008 [60] | Professionally led PE |
| - | - | - | - | Change in BMI grade 1: -0.21 | Sig | ||
Change in BMI grade 2: -0.05 | ||||||||||
Change in BMI grade 3: -0.06 | ||||||||||
Change in BMI grade 4: 0.04 | ||||||||||
Change in BMI grade 5: 0.02 | ||||||||||
Datar and Sturm, 2004 [38] | Increased PE duration of 1 hour per week |
| - | - | - | - | Adjusted change in BMI, normal weight ♂ 0.04 (-0.04,0.12) | |||
Adjusted change in BMI, normal weight ♀ 0.01 (-0.07,0.10) | ||||||||||
Adjusted change in BMI, overweight or obese ♂ -0.07 (-0.19,0.05) | ||||||||||
Adjusted change in BMI, overweight or obese ♀ -0.32 (-0.46,-0.17) | Sig | |||||||||
Meeting the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) guidelines |
| - | - | - | - | PE duration Adjusted change in BMI% -0.74 (-1.78,0.30), ♂ -1.56 (-3.03,-0.09), ♀ 0.05 (-1.40,1.50) | Sig♂ | |||
Break period duration: adjusted change in BMI% -0.74 (-1.33,-0.15), ♂ -0.81 (-1.67,0.05), ♀ -0.69 (-1.49,0.11) | Sig | |||||||||
Combined policies | ||||||||||
Johnson, et al. 2012 [31] | ✓e,f,g,h | ✓ | Be Active Eat Well |
| - | - | - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.085 (-0.18,0.01) | |
HE policy |
| - | - | - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.008 (-0.06,0.04) | ||||
PA policy |
| - | - | - | - | Adjusted change in BMI-SDS -0.006 (-0.06,0.05) | ||||
✓b,c,d,e,f,h | ✓ | Utah’s Gold Medal Schools |
| - | - | - | - | Change in BMI-SDS Intervention: 0.21 (-0.71,1.13), Control: 0.53 (-0.21,1.27) | ||
Chomitz, et al. 2010 [63] | ✓c,e,f,h | ✓ | Healthy Living Cambridge Kids |
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| - | - | Change in BMI-SDS -0.04 | Sig |
Change in prevalence of overweight 0.6% points | ||||||||||
Change in prevalence of obesity -2.2% points | Sig | |||||||||
Harrison, et al. 2011 [57] | Cookery lessons | - | - | - |
| - | None of the policies were significantly associated with FMI in females, while only being able to eat any food at break times and being able to play 3-4 games during break times where association with higher FMI in males. | |||
Foods permitted during break periods | - | - | - |
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HE policy | - | - | - |
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Sports allowed during break periods | - | - | - |
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‘Park and stride’ scheme | - | - | - |
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PA policy | - | - | - |
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PA and HE policy | - | - | - |
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Nutrition policy | - |
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| - | - | Adjusted odds ratio overweight: 0.91 (0.77,1.09) | ||||
Adjusted odds ratio obesity: 0.85 (0.63,1.55) | ||||||||||
✓a,c,d,e,f,g,h | ✓ | Annapolis Valley Health Promoting Schools Project | - |
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| - | - | Adjusted odds ratio overweight: 0.41 (0.32,0.53) | Sig | |
Adjusted odds ratio obesity: 0.28 (0.14,0.57) | Sig | |||||||||
Zhu, et al. 2010 [59] | ✓a,b,d,f,g,h | Professionally led PE | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 0.62 (0.01,1.23) | Sig | |
Duration of PE periods | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 0.05 (-0.03,0.13) | ||||
Number of PE periods | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 1.06 (0.47,1.65) | Sig | |||
Duration of Break periods | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 2.71 (1.75,3.67) | Sig | |||
Number of break periods | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate -2.25 (-3.86,-0.64) | Sig | |||
Cancel due to weather | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate -1.26 (-3.73,1.21) | ||||
PE exemptions | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate -0.34 (-0.65,-0.03) | Sig | |||
USDA | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 0.02 (-1.49,1.53) | ||||
Wellness council | - | - | - | - |
| Adjusted change in BMIHFZ achievement rate 0.41 (-0.04,0.86) |