Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science-University of Alicante. Campus de Sant Vicent del Raspeig. Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Apr 19;16(8):1414. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16081414.
The rise in obesity prevalence has increased research interest in the obesogenic environment and its influence on excess weight. The aim of the present study was to review and map data collection instruments for obesogenic environments in adults in order to provide an overview of the existing evidence and enable comparisons. Through the scoping review method, different databases and webpages were searched between January 1997 and May 2018. Instruments were included if they targeted adults. The documents were categorised as food environment or built environment. In terms of results, 92 instruments were found: 46 instruments measuring the food environment, 42 measuring the built environment, and 4 that characterised both environments. Numerous diverse instruments have been developed to characterise the obesogenic environment, and some of them have been developed based on existing ones; however, most of them have not been validated and there is very little similarity between them, hindering comparison of the results obtained. In addition, most of them were developed and used in the United States and were written in English. In conclusion, there is a need for a robust instrument, improving or combining existing ones, for use within and across countries, and more sophisticated study designs where the environment is contemplated in an interdisciplinary approach.
肥胖患病率的上升增加了人们对致肥胖环境及其对体重过剩影响的研究兴趣。本研究旨在综述和绘制成人致肥胖环境的数据收集工具，以便提供现有证据的概述并能够进行比较。通过范围综述方法，1997 年 1 月至 2018 年 5 月期间在不同的数据库和网页上进行了搜索。如果工具针对成年人，则将其包括在内。这些文件被归类为食物环境或建筑环境。结果发现了 92 种工具：46 种用于测量食物环境，42 种用于测量建筑环境，4 种用于同时描述两种环境。已经开发出许多不同的工具来描述致肥胖环境，其中一些是基于现有工具开发的；但是，大多数工具尚未经过验证，彼此之间几乎没有相似之处，这阻碍了对所获得结果的比较。此外，大多数工具都是在美国开发和使用的，并且是用英语编写的。总之，需要一种强大的工具来改进或结合现有的工具，以便在国内和国际上使用，并且需要更复杂的研究设计，以便从跨学科的角度考虑环境。
