Parental involvement is often advocated as important for school-based interventions, because parents are a main determinant of children's dietary and physical activity behaviors. We conducted a systematic review of the available scientific literature on this issue to explore the available scientific evidence for this claim. This review thus aimed at determining the impact of parental involvement in school-based obesity prevention interventions in children and adolescents. Our review was conducted as part of the ENERGY project, a European Commission-funded project to improve obesity prevention among school-aged children across Europe. The review was just published in the International Journal of Public Health. Wendy van Lippevelde, a PhD candidate from the University of Ghent was first author.
Akltough some positive effects of parental involvement were found on children's behaviours and behavioural determinants, the evidence was inconclusive. Maybe the most prominebt outcome of our review was that so few studies have been conducted that have explicetely tested the effect of parental involvement, and celarly more studies are needed to address this important issue. There is a need for more studies comparing school-based interventions with and without a parental component, and dose, strategies and content of parental components of school-based interventions should be better reported in research articles.
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