Abstract
Narzisi K and Simons J (2020). Interventions that prevent or reduce obesity in children from birth to five years of age: A systematic review. Journal of Child Health Care. Epub ahead of print 15 April 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1367493520917863.
The authors would like to highlight the following corrections to the above article: In our original article, we did not state our cut-off date for our search strategy. The following has been included in the first sentence of the Search Strategy ‘from their inception to June 2018’. In the Methods section, under the Quality appraisal heading we have amended the final four sentences to read “To assess the validity of the articles, the JBI critical appraisal tools developed by JBI were used (Schultz et al., 2007). Each study’s methodological quality and the extent to which each study addressed the possibility of bias in its design, conduct and analysis was assessed. One of three different JBI checklists, for Randomised Controlled Trials, Quasi-Experimental Studies (non-randomized experimental studies) and Cohort Studies were used. The outcomes of the appraisal were used to inform the interpretation of the results of the studies. Please see supplementary information for the outcomes of the critical appraisal process.” We have added a supplementary file which outlines the outcomes of the critical appraisal process. The first sentence of the fourth paragraph in the Discussion section has been corrected to include the following at the end of the sentence ‘or the study had missing data’ It has been brought to our attention that we inaccurately reported the findings of Paul et al (2011) and we have therefore corrected this inaccuracy as follows. (a) In the second paragraph under the ‘Discussions’ heading: “A number of studies reported marginal effects, that were not statistically significant (Woo Baidal et al., 2017; Ostbye et al., 2012), however, most studies did not have long term follow up of the interventions. Also, the nature of the age group, under-fives, means that dietary habits formed at this age are likely to lifelong influence in relation to food preferences, making interventions at this stage of life very cost effective (Brown et al 2019).” (b) In the sixth paragraph under the ‘Discussions’ heading: “A number of obesity prevention interventions in this review (n = 5) focused on new mothers or mothers and their infants, with each study managing to have a positive impact on nutrition. Daniels et al. (2012) found that anticipatory feeding guidance and responsive feeding timed before babies were weaned could be an effective time to intervene in feeding practices that prevented babies becoming overweight or obese. Paul et al (2011) found that two intervention which taught new mothers to discriminate between hunger and other sources of distress, as well as hunger and satiety cues, resulted in lower weight for length at 1 year. A systematic review by Blake-Lamb et al. (2016) showed that new mothers are receptive to health-related messages and suggest that obesity interventions begun early in life may have the greatest preventive effect, however, interventions during infancy need to be followed up to determine long term benefits.” The focus of responsive feeding as an obesity prevention intervention has been brought to our attention and we have therefore amended our reporting of the work of Daniels et al. (2012), who found that anticipatory feeding guidance and responsive feeding, timed before babies were weaned, could be effective feeding practices that prevent babies becoming overweight or obese. In recognition of this correction, we have amended our ‘Limitations’ section as follows: “Different search terms could have increased the number of infant feeding studies (such as work on responsive feeding), from five, and could have highlighted more strongly the potential for obesity prevention interventions to be undertaken during infancy.”
The article has been corrected.