Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention: A Framework to Inform Decision Making

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Table of Contents
Front Matter R1-R14
Summary 1-16
1 Introduction 17-34
2 Obesity Prevention Strategies in Concept and Practice 35-54
3 Rationale for and Overview of the L.E.A.D. Framework 55-70
4 Defining the Problem: The Importance of Taking a Systems Perspective 71-88
5 Specifying Questions and Locating Evidence: An Expanded View 89-114
6 Evaluating Evidence 115-132
7 Assembling Evidence and Informing Decisions 133-158
8 Opportunities to Generate Evidence 159-186
9 Next Steps 187-196
10 Conclusions and Recommendations 197-206
Appendix A: Acronyms and Glossary 207-222
Appendix B: Other Evidence Projects 223-226
Appendix C: Review of Existing Reviews on Obesity Prevention 227-268
Appendix D: Information Sources for Locating Evidence 269-276
Appendix E: An In-Depth Look at Study Designs and Methodologies 277-300
Appendix F: Agendas from Two Workshops 301-304
Appendix G: Committee Member Biographical Sketches 305-312
Index 313-322

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Study	Search Strategy			Initial No. Identified	Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
	Sources of Information^a	Years Included	Type of Appraisal and Purpose		Subject Demographics
Zenzen and Kridli (2009)	(14), (27), (28)	2000-2007	Integrative review	Not reported	Included: children aged 4-18 (kindergarten through high school)
	Manual searching of bibliographies from gathered articles		To study the degree of variability in the methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks of school-based obesity prevention programs, focused on the following interventions: dietary, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle education; parental involvement
NOTES: BMI = body mass index; CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; N/A = not available; RCT = randomized controlled trial. ^aElectronic databases are denoted numerically as outlined below: (1) Academic Search Elite (2) ACP Journal Club (American College of Physicians Evidence Based Medicine) (3) AGRICOLA (4) AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) (5) ARC Service (Agricultural Research Council) (6) AustHealth (7) Best Evidence Database (8) Biological Abstracts (9) BioMed Central (10) BIOSIS Previews (11) Chronic Disease Prevention File (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) (12) CDSR (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) (13) CENTRAL/CCTR (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) (14) CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (15) Cochrane Library (16) Current Contents—Life Sciences (17) DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) (18) Education Abstracts (19) ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre) (20) EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database) (21) Environline

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