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Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of scaled up interventions

From: Mechanisms of scaling up: combining a realist perspective and systems analysis to understand successfully scaled interventions

Intervention name

Intervention type

Target outcome

Population and setting

Scale up time frame

Scale up level

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garde [35]

School-based food education program

Nutrition

Primary schools

2005- ongoing

National

PEACH (Parenting Eating and Act for Child Health) [36] 

Community-based multi-component group educational sessions

PA & Nutrition

Families with overweight/obese children aged 5–11 years, Community settings

2013–2016 (QLD)

State (QLD)

Munch and Move [37]

Training and resources for early childhood educators

PA & Nutrition

Children aged 0–5 years, Early childhood education and care services

2013- ongoing

State (NSW)

Live Lighter [38]

Educational mass media campaign

PA & Nutrition

Adults, mass media and social media

2012–2015

State (WA, VIC, ACT & NT)

Physical Activity 4 Everyone [39]

Whole-school physical activity program

PA

Adolescents, Disadvantaged secondary schools

2017 – ongoing

State (NSW)

OPAL (Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle) [40]

Community development and social marketing

PA & Nutrition

Children through families, Community-based

2009–2017

State (SA)

Go4Fun [41]

After school obesity prevention program

PA & Nutrition

Children 7–13 above a healthy weight, Community settings

2009- ongoing

State (NSW)

  1. Information in table relates only to scale up period for each intervention. PA Physical Activity, Australian states: SA South Australia, QLD Queensland, NSW New South Wales, WA Western Australia, ACT Australian Capital Territory, NT Northern Territory