The use of social marketing to modify lifestyle choices could be helpful in reducing youth obesity. Some or all of the 8 domains of the National Social Marketing Centre's social marketing benchmark criteria (SMBC) are often used but not always defined in intervention studies.The aim of this review is to assess the effectiveness of European school-based interventions to prevent obesity relative to the inclusion of SMBC domains in the intervention.The PubMed, Cochrane, and ERIC databases were used.Nonrandomized and randomized controlled trials conducted from 1990 to April 2014 in participants aged 5 to 17 years were included.After the study selection, the 8 domains of the SMBC were assessed in each included study.Thirty-eight publications were included in the systematic review. For the meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting body mass index or prevalence of overweight and obesity were considered. Eighteen RCTs with a total of 8681 participants included at least 5 SMBC. The meta-analysis showed a small standardized mean difference in body mass index of -0.25 (95

作者：Magaly, Aceves-Martins；Elisabet, Llauradó；Lucia, Tarro；Carlos Francisco, Moreno-García；Tamy Goretty, Trujillo Escobar；Rosa, Solà；Montse, Giralt

来源：Nutrition reviews 2016 年 74卷 5期