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SynthesisHealth psychology review2022

Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

James P Reynolds, Milica Vasiljevic, Mark Pilling, Theresa M Marteau

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Synthesis in Health psychology review, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

James P ReynoldsBehaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1536-1557
Milica VasiljevicDepartment of Psychology, Upper Mountjoy, Durham University, Durham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7454-7744
Mark PillingBehaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7446-6597
Theresa M MarteauBehaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3025-1129

Funding

Department of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public support for many policies that tackle obesity by changing environments is low. This may reflect commonly held causal beliefs about obesity, namely that it is due to failures of self-control rather than environmental influences. Several studies have sought to increase public support by changing these and similar causal beliefs, with mixed results. The current review is the first systematic synthesis of these studies. Searches of PsycInfo, Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, and Open Grey yielded 20 eligible studies (

Indexed as

GovernmentObesityAttitudeHumansPolicyattitudesattributionCausal beliefsobesitypolicy

Identifiers

PMID33003986
PMCPMC8884254

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