Project Documentation

On this page, you will find all the NCCOR COEB Project documentation, including the project manual of procedures, obesity intervention component taxonomy, taxonomy-specific database, and bibliography.

Manual of Procedures

The purpose of the Manual of Procedures is to describe the methods and coding schema used to create this dataset.

Manual of Procedures

Taxonomy Overview

Four taxonomies were created for the NCCOR COEB Project via the grounded approach^1, 2: intervention components, intended recipient characteristics, intervention component context, and outcomes. Only studies that included measures of Body Mass Index (BMI) were included in the final taxonomic meta-analysis.

Taxonomy Overview

Database Instructions

This document outlines the development of the COEB dataset and instructions for how users can use the dataset for independent analysis.

Database Instructions

Database

A primary output of the NCCOR COEB Project is a dataset of 51 unique studies with 147 supplemental documents (total of 198 articles) of childhood obesity interventions to which taxonomic categorization or coding has been applied. This dataset can be used by researchers for independent analysis. Users can analyze the dataset in its entirety, or they can identify or isolate individual studies in the database or groups of studies sharing common characteristics.

Database

Supplemental materials for the taxonomic meta-analysis:

• Supplemental Material 1: Electronic Bibliographic Database Search Strings
• Supplemental Material 2: Assessment of Risk of Publication Bias
• Supplementary Figure S1: Risk of Bias Assessments in Controlled Trials Using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool
• Supplementary Table S1: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Checklist
• Supplemental Table S2: Intervention Details for the 58 Interventions Included in the Meta-Analysis
• Supplemental Table S3: Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project Overall Effect Sizes and Homogeneity Statistics for Body Mass Index by Assessment Interval*
• Supplemental Table S4: Moderators of Body Mass Index by Post-Intervention Assessment Interval

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SUGGESTED CITATION

Childhood Obesity Evidence Base. National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research. https://nccorstg.wpengine.com/projects/childhood-obesity-evidence-base-test-of-a-novel-taxonomic-meta-analytic-method/project-documentation/ [Accessed on: Month Day, Year].

References

1. Glaser B, Strauss A. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Chicago: Aldine. 1967.
2. Strauss A, Corbin J. Grounded theory methodology. Handbook of Qualitative Research. 1994;17:273-85.