Shinde Sachin, Wang Dongqing, Moulton Gretchen E, Fawzi Wafaie W
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Center for Inquiry into Mental Health, Pune, India.
Matern Child Nutr. 2023 Mar 30:e13437. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13437.
School system is a promising platform for addressing all forms of malnutrition in adolescents. However, little is known about the impact of integrated school health and nutrition programmes on adolescent nutrition and educational outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This systematic review sought to characterize school-based health and nutrition interventions among adolescents in LMICs and analyze their effects on nutritional status and educational outcomes. Four databases were searched for studies evaluating school-based health and nutrition interventions for adolescents in LMICs, reporting changes in either nutritional status or educational outcomes. A narrative synthesis was used to analyze and describe the evidence. Our review included 68 articles evaluating 58 interventions, of which a third had moderate to strong methodological quality. Forty-two studies evaluated single-domain interventions, while 26 evaluated multi-component interventions. A third of all interventions were based on a theoretical framework. Three-fourths of the interventions were shorter than 11 months, which may make identifying their effect difficult. The results of the effectiveness of these interventions were mixed and inconsistent across intervention types. Sixteen out of 21 studies evaluating multi-component interventions and 12 out of 23 studies evaluating nutrition education reported improving nutritional or diet-related outcomes. One out of six studies reported positive effects on educational outcomes. Our review has identified that research needs include: a greater inclusion of theory-based approaches to guide the implementation of interventions; more studies of integrated interventions that involve parents and the wider community in LMICs; and extension of outcomes beyond nutritional status to include educational outcomes.
学校系统是解决青少年各种形式营养不良问题的一个有前景的平台。然而,在低收入和中等收入国家(LMICs),关于综合性学校健康与营养计划对青少年营养和教育成果的影响,人们知之甚少。本系统评价旨在描述LMICs中针对青少年的学校健康与营养干预措施,并分析其对营养状况和教育成果的影响。我们检索了四个数据库,以查找评估LMICs中针对青少年的学校健康与营养干预措施、报告营养状况或教育成果变化的研究。采用叙述性综合分析来分析和描述证据。我们的评价纳入了68篇评估58项干预措施的文章,其中三分之一具有中等至较高的方法学质量。42项研究评估了单领域干预措施,26项研究评估了多成分干预措施。所有干预措施中有三分之一基于理论框架。四分之三的干预措施持续时间短于11个月,这可能难以确定其效果。这些干预措施的有效性结果在不同干预类型之间参差不齐且不一致。在评估多成分干预措施的21项研究中,有16项,在评估营养教育的23项研究中,有12项报告营养或饮食相关成果有所改善。在六项研究中,有一项报告对教育成果有积极影响。我们的评价发现研究需求包括:更多纳入基于理论的方法来指导干预措施的实施;对低收入和中等收入国家中涉及家长和更广泛社区的综合干预措施进行更多研究;以及将成果范围从营养状况扩展到包括教育成果。
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