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Study
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Search Strategy
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Initial No. Identified
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Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
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Sources of Informationa
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Years Included
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Type of Appraisal and Purpose
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Subject Demographics
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American Dietetic Association Position Statement (2006)
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(28)
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January 1982-January 2004
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Systematic review
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Not reported
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Healthy children and adolescents aged 2-18
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Manual searching of bibliographies from gathered articles and reviews
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To develop a position statement on individual-, family-, school-, and community-based interventions for pediatric overweight
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Bluford et al. (2007)
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(11), (14), (20), (27), (28)
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1966-March 2005
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Systematic review
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Not reported
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Preschool-age children aged 2-6
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To identify and summarize effective evaluated interventions for preventing or treating obesity among preschool children aged 2-6
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Brown and Summerbell (2009)
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(20), (28)
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January 2006-September 2007
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Systematic review
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1,553
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School children aged 5-18
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To determine the effectiveness of school-based interventions focused on changing dietary intake and physical activity levels to prevent childhood obesity
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Excluded: studies that recruited children on the basis of weight; studies in children with critical illness or eating disorders
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