Exploring the values and preferences of children and adolescents with obesity and their parents/caregivers concerning diet or physical activity interventions for weight management: Mega-ethnography of qualitative syntheses

Munira Essat; Christopher Carroll; Andrew Booth; Joanna Leaviss; Diana Castelblanco Cuevas; Roos Verstraeten

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0340875

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Exploring the values and preferences of children and adolescents with obesity and their parents/caregivers concerning diet or physical activity interventions for weight management: Mega-ethnography of qualitative syntheses

Munira Essat ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: m.essat@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2397-402X

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Christopher Carroll,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Andrew Booth,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Joanna Leaviss,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Diana Castelblanco Cuevas,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Roos Verstraeten

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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Exploring the values and preferences of children and adolescents with obesity and their parents/caregivers concerning diet or physical activity interventions for weight management: Mega-ethnography of qualitative syntheses

Munira Essat,
Christopher Carroll,
Andrew Booth,
Joanna Leaviss,
Diana Castelblanco Cuevas,
Roos Verstraeten

Published: January 20, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0340875

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