Effectiveness of gender-targeted versus gender-neutral interventions aimed at improving dietary intake, physical activit
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Effectiveness of gender-targeted versus gender-neutral interventions aimed at improving dietary intake, physical activity and/or overweight/obesity in young adults (aged 17–35 years): a systematic review and meta-analysis Thomas Sharkey1,2, Megan C. Whatnall1,2 , Melinda J. Hutchesson1,2, Rebecca L. Haslam1,2, Aaron Bezzina1,2, Clare E. Collins1,2 and Lee M. Ashton1,2*
Abstract Background: Young adulthood has become synonymous with the development of poor lifestyle behaviours associated with an increased risk of preventable chronic disease in later years. Interventions aiming to improve health behaviours may be more engaging and effective if they are targeted to males or females than interventions with a gender-neutral approach. This review will examine the outcome effectiveness of gender-targeted and gender-neutral interventions targeting nutrition, physical activity or overweight/obesity in young adults (17–35 years). Methods: Six electronic databases were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published up to December 2019 that evaluated nutrition, physical activity and/or overweight/obesity interventions in young adults (17–35 years). An effective intervention was one where the change in one or more primary outcome was positive and statistically significantly different from baseline, compared with control, or if no control comparator, compared with another active intervention. Effectiveness of outcomes was compared between gender-targeted and gender-neutral studies. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia 2 Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Sharkey et al. Nutrition Journal
(2020) 19:78
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Results: In total 21,582 manuscripts were identified and 107 RCT
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