New Standards for Nutrition Science, Concepts and Methods—Low Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: Participatory Research Designs for the Development of Interventions †
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Tim van Zutphen
1, 
Claire Gaudichon
2,
Jakub Morze
3,
Liana Poulia
4,
Gonçalo Rosa Da Silva
5,
Ascensión Marcos
6 and
Hinke Haisma
7,* 1
Faculty Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, 8911 CE Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2
AgroParisTech, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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School of Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland
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Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athina, Greece
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School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK
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Department of Metabolism and Nutrition, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos y Nutrición, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 9747 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Presented at the 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023, Belgrade, Serbia, 14–17 November 2023.
Proceedings 2023, 91(1), 125; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023091125
Published: 19 January 2024
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023)
Background: The heavy burden of obesity on individuals and society has attracted a lot of attention, and many strategies to prevent or reverse it have been developed. Consequently, many reviews exist on this topic, However, similar to the bulk of studies, most reviews on combatting obesity follow the traditional (bio)medical approach. Dedicated interventions that take the unequal distribution of obesity among socioeconomic groups into account, particularly by applying an interdisciplinary approach that includes participation of the most heavily burdened low-SES groups themselves, are much more scarce and thus also less frequently reviewed. Objective: We aim to write a scoping review on interventions or initiatives aiming at obesity among groups with low socioeconomic status that apply a form of participation of the target group. We will focus on community-based programmes. Methods: We performed a literature search in Scopus, Web of Science and Pubmed. Using Rayyan software [1], we identified 3227 articles, of which, after screening the abstracts and full texts, 16 were eligible for further extraction of data. Results: Currently, we are at the stage of data extraction. Preliminary findings show that participatory approaches have an effect on a range of outcomes in low-SES populations, including dietary patterns, sleep and/or BMI. Discussion: By confining the review to community-based participatory research, identifying causal relationships is not our main goal. Nevertheless, we will focus on interventions, initiatives or programmes that aim to generate an impact and therefore go beyond associations or identifications of underlying determinants. Instead, it may give us an understanding of why we tend to be ineffective in combatting obesity in low-SES populations with top-down approaches and possibly identify strategies that do have a long-term impact. At the conference, we will be able to present the final data and conclusions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, T.v.Z., C.G., J.M., L.P., G.R.D.S., A.M. and H.H.; methodology, T.v.Z., C.G., J.M., L.P., G.R.D.S., A.M. and H.H.; software, J.M.; validation, T.v.Z., C.G., J.M., L.P., G.R.D.S., A.M. and H.H.; analysis, T.v.Z., C.G. and H.H.; writing—original draft preparation, T.v.Z. and H.H.; writing—review and editing, T.v.Z. and H.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Institutional Review Board Statement
Not applicable.
Informed Consent Statement
Not applicable.
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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van Zutphen, T.; Gaudichon, C.; Morze, J.; Poulia, L.; Da Silva, G.R.; Marcos, A.; Haisma, H. New Standards for Nutrition Science, Concepts and Methods—Low Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: Participatory Research Designs for the Development of Interventions. Proceedings 2023, 91, 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023091125
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van Zutphen T, Gaudichon C, Morze J, Poulia L, Da Silva GR, Marcos A, Haisma H. New Standards for Nutrition Science, Concepts and Methods—Low Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: Participatory Research Designs for the Development of Interventions. Proceedings. 2023; 91(1):125. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023091125
Chicago/Turabian Stylevan Zutphen, Tim, Claire Gaudichon, Jakub Morze, Liana Poulia, Gonçalo Rosa Da Silva, Ascensión Marcos, and Hinke Haisma. 2023. "New Standards for Nutrition Science, Concepts and Methods—Low Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: Participatory Research Designs for the Development of Interventions" Proceedings 91, no. 1: 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023091125
