Availability of Healthy Food and Beverages in Hospital Outlets and Interventions in the UK and USA to Improve the Hospital Food Environment: A Systematic Narrative Literature Review

Nutrients

Suzanne Spence¹  Sarah Richardson¹  Lorraine McSweeney¹ 

[1] Human Nutrition Research Centre, Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, M1.151 William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK;

关键词: food environment;    healthy diet;    hospital;    systematic review;    narrative synthesis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu14081566

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The aims of this systematic review are to determine the availability of healthy food and beverages in hospitals and identify interventions that positively influence the hospital food environment, thereby improving the dietary intake of employees and visitors. Embase, Medline, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, Google Scholar and Google were used to identify publications. Publications relating to the wider hospital food environment in the UK and USA were considered eligible, while those regarding food available to in-patients were excluded. Eligible publications (n = 40) were explored using a narrative synthesis. Risk of bias and research quality were assessed using the Quality Criteria Checklist for Primary Research. Although limited by the heterogeneity of study designs, this review concludes that the overall quality of hospital food environments varies. Educational, labelling, financial and choice architecture interventions were shown to improve the hospital food environment and/or dietary intake of consumers. Implementing pre-existing initiatives improved food environments, but multi-component interventions had some undesirable effects, such as reduced fruit and vegetable intake.

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