Promoting water consumption using behavioral economics insights [Dataset]

DOI

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.

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/10099
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/10099
Provenance
Creator Camacho, Salvador; Schwieren, Christiane; Ruppel, Andreas
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Camacho, Salvador; Institute of Public Health, AWI; Bergheimer Straße 58 69115 Heidelberg; Camacho, Salvador; Schwieren, Christiane; Ruppel, Andreas; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2017
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Camacho, Salvador; Institute of Public Health, AWI; Bergheimer Straße 58 69115 Heidelberg
Representation
Resource Type Clinical data (Age, weight, height, BMI, Zscores); Dataset
Format application/octet-stream; application/pdf
Size 71931; 156287
Version 1.1
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Economics; Life Sciences; Medicine; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences
Spatial Coverage Mexico