Promoting water consumption among Dutch children: an evaluation of the social network intervention Share H2 O

Background: There is a need to develop and improve interventions promoting healthy drinking behaviors among children. A promising method could be to stimulate peer influence within children’s social networks. In the Share H2O social network intervention (SNI), peer influence was utilized by selecting a subset of influential children and training them as ‘influence agents’ to promote water consumption—as an alternative to SSBs. Previous research has mainly focused on the process of selecting influence agents. However, the process of motivating influence agents to promote the behavior has hardly... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Smit, C.R.
Leeuw, R.N.H. (Rebecca) de
Bevelander, K.E. (Kirsten)
Burk, W.J. (William)
Woudenberg, T.J. (Thabo) van
Buijs, L.
Buijzen, M. (Moniek)
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Schlagwörter: Children / Drinking water / Intervention / Motivation / Peer influence / Sugar-sweetened beverages
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26677397
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/134277

Background: There is a need to develop and improve interventions promoting healthy drinking behaviors among children. A promising method could be to stimulate peer influence within children’s social networks. In the Share H2O social network intervention (SNI), peer influence was utilized by selecting a subset of influential children and training them as ‘influence agents’ to promote water consumption—as an alternative to SSBs. Previous research has mainly focused on the process of selecting influence agents. However, the process of motivating influence agents to promote the behavior has hardly received any research attention. Therefore, in the SNI Share H2O SNI, this motivation process was emphasized and grounded in the self-determination th