Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.11588/data/10099 |
Publication Date
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2017-03-10 |
Title
| Promoting water consumption using behavioral economics insights [Dataset] |
Author
| Camacho, Salvador (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics and Institute of Public Health)
Schwieren, Christiane (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics)
Ruppel, Andreas (Institute of Public Health) |
Point of Contact
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Camacho, Salvador; Institute of Public Health, AWI; Bergheimer Straße 58 69115 Heidelberg |
Description
| Mexico has one of the largest overweight and obesity epidemics in the world and as a response, several actions aiming to reduce the obesity epidemic have been already set in place. Some of these actions include a specific action program for schools looking to turn the scholar environments into supportive environments for the infants to make healthier food choices. The influence of the environment (the so-called “choice architecture”) on people’s perceptions and decisions is studied by economists with the aim of supporting individuals’ to make healthier decisions, using tools known as “nudges”. However, "nudges" are not commonly integrated into anti-obesity strategies. We designed an intervention trying to find out whether such a small, liberty-preserving intervention could increase the effectiveness of a water-promotion campaign, when compared to the common approach of an educative talk. The intervention was developed in three schools in Mexico City and the State of Mexico. The body mass index, standardized by Z-scores, was used as the indicator of campaign success. Although – mainly due to problems within the sample and a yet too-short follow-up – our results do not show considerable differences between the approaches, they provide insights suggesting that including “nudges” into a health promoting campaign may indeed have a positive impact. |
Subject
| Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Social Sciences |
Keyword
| obesity
children
public health
behavioral economics
nudge |
Related Publication
| Manuscript under review. |
Producer
| Camacho, Salvador (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics and Institute of Public Health)
Schwieren, Christiane (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics)
Ruppel, Andreas (Institute of Public Health) |
Production Date
| 2016-02 |
Production Location
| Mexico |
Distributor
| heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository (University of Heidelberg) http://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de |
Deposit Date
| 2017-03-09 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 2016-02 ; End Date: 2016-06 |
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2016-02 ; End Date: 2016-06 |
Data Type
| Clinical data (Age, weight, height, BMI, Zscores) |
Software
| 13.1, Version: 13.1
9.3.3, Version: 9.3.3 |
Related Dataset
| Shamah Levy, T., Morales Ruán, C., Amaya Castellanos, C., Salazar Coronel, A., Jiménez Aguilar, A. and Méndez Gómez Humarán, I. (2012). Effectiveness of a diet and physical activity promotion strategy on the prevention of obesity in Mexican school children. BMC Public Health 12, 152, doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-152. Brown, T. and Summerbell, C. (2009). Systematic review of school-based interventions that focus on changing dietary intake and physical activity levels to prevent childhood obesity: an update to the obesity guidance produced by the National Institute for health and clinical excellence. Obesity reviews 10, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00515.x. Arno, A. and Thomas, S. (2016). |
Other Reference
| The efficacy of nudge theory strategies in influencing adult dietary behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health 16, 676, doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3272-x. |
Data Source
| Digital bascule, professional metric ruler |