Interventions to Promote Healthy Meals in Full-Service Restaurants and Canteens: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
, Lucia Tarro 1,2,†, Elisabet Llauradó 1,*, Rosa Maria Valls 1 and Rosa Solà 1,2,3Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is a very interesting manuscript on a important public health issue. Dietary choices of children are influenced by several factors, including foods offered at school and other settings.
The manuscript is well-written providing detailed information on the methodology used, as well as the strengths and limitation of this SR and MA. The results are clearly presented and the conclusions are inline with the results.
Author Response
We are pleased the reviewer appreciated our manuscript and considers it appropriate.
Reviewer 2 Report
This manuscript aimed to elucidate the effectiveness of full-service restaurant- and canteen-based interventions targeting children, adolescents and adults in increasing the availability, purchase and intake of healthy meals. This is an important global issue, therefore I consider it reasonable to undertake this analysis.
The study utilized a sample of 8537 articles which were retrieved from the search of the Medline, Cochrane Library and Scopus databases. The undertaken procedure allowed to correctly qualify a total of 41 articles for the systematic review. However, I suggest to introduce to Figure 1 more numbers details, which are described in lines 175-183.
In my opinion the manuscript is prepared well. The results, discussion and conclusions are valuable for readers, but also for researchers. They indicate areas that have been little recognized so far, and are important from the perspective of improving the nutrition of various population groups. Also valuable is the comment regarding the organization of interventional studies.
In my opinion it would be better to use “sample” instead of “population” in some places, for example line 216 - Samples of the Included Studies.
Author Response
We are pleased the reviewer appreciated our manuscript. As the reviewer suggested, we have introduced numeric information in Figure 1 (page 5), and we have changed the word “population” for the word “sample” (Table 2, page 6; page 18, line 216; page 18, line 222).
