Carry M Renders

Biographic Data

ID6266510
NAMECarry M Renders
GIVEN NAMESCarry M
FAMILY NAMERenders
SIGNATURERENDERS C M
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6688-1312
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Does the physical food environment in secondary school influence students’ social norm perceptions regarding healthy dietary choices? – An exploratory study in the Netherlands

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Naomi A Camfferman et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026References: 1

    Creating a healthy food environment in secondary schools has the potential to communicate social norms regarding healthy dietary choices. This study explored the relationship between the schools' food environment and perceived descriptive (what others do) and injunctive (what others approve) norms regarding healthy dietary choices among adolescents. An exploratory (quasi-experimental) study was conducted in 23 Dutch schools, differing between thr…

  • Charge Your Brainzzz

    Open AccessDanique M Heemskerk, Vincent Busch et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Inadequate sleep among Dutch adolescents is a complex public health issue with detrimental effects on physical and mental well-being. Previous interventions have shown limited or no lasting effects. While systems approaches help to understand and address such challenges, effective prevention efforts require theory- and evidence-based intervention design using behavior change techniques. This study outlines the systematic development of a ‘whole s…

  • A qualitative study into the perceptions and needs of fathers with a migration background on parenting regarding energy balance-related behaviors

    Open AccessMeredith L Overman, Roel C J Hermans et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    A deeper understanding of the needs, perceptions, and experiences of migrant populations concerning parenting regarding the promotion of healthy energy balance-related behaviors among their children can lead to better-tailored health promotion programs that prioritize cultural and linguistic inclusivity

  • Do financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food tax schemes on food purchases

    Open AccessSanne K Djojosoeparto, Maartje P Poelman et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To investigate whether financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food-related taxes on the healthiness of food purchases. Design: Moderation analyses were conducted with data from a trial where participants were randomly exposed to: a control condition with regular food prices, an sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax condition with a two-tiered levy on the sugar content in SSB (5–8 g/100 ml: €0·21 per l and ≥ 8 g/10…

  • Increasing community capacity to improve the implementation of Health Promoting Schools

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Monica Antonia Maria Ridder et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2023

    Building community capacity is important for the successful implementation of a Health Promoting School. To identify how capacity building can be encouraged in secondary schools, four schools engaged in the Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention for 3 years. This study explores barriers and facilitators that school personnel, parents and pupils experienced in the capacity-building process. Thirty-one stakeholders were interviewe…

  • Letting people flourish

    Open AccessHanne C S Sponselee, Lies ter Beek et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: The concept of "positive health" emerged from the need for a holistic and more dynamic perspective on health, emphasising the ability of individuals to adapt and self-manage. The positive health conversation tool helps understand how people score on six positive health dimensions. However, skills within these dimensions to maintain or improve health have not yet been described. This is important for enabling individuals to put health …

  • Understanding the system dynamics of obesity-related behaviours in 10- to 14-year-old adolescents in Amsterdam from a multi-actor perspective

    Open AccessAngie Luna Pinzon, Karien Stronks et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction and Methods: To develop an understanding of the dynamics driving obesity-related behaviours in adolescents, we conducted systems-based analysis on a causal loop diagram (CLD) created from a multi-actor perspective, including academic researchers, adolescents and local stakeholders. Results: The CLD contained 121 factors and 31 feedback loops. We identified six subsystems with their goals: (1) interaction between adolescents and the f…

  • Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Inge Maria de Vries et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Building community capacity in secondary schools is a promising strategy for the sustainable implementation of school-based health promotion. The Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention explored how building community capacity works for the prevention of overweight following four strategies: leadership, participatory school culture, tailored health-promotion activities, and local networks. This study evaluates the int…

  • Supporting schools during the implementation of the health-promoting school approach

    Open AccessNina Bartelink, Bonnie Maria van Dongen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Introduction: The health-promoting school (HPS) approach was developed by the World Health Organization to create health promotion changes in the whole school system. Implementing the approach can be challenging for schools because schools are dynamic organizations with each a unique context. Many countries worldwide have a health promotion system in place in which healthy school (HS) advisors support schools in the process of implementing the HP…

  • Stakeholders’ Perceptions Regarding Adaptation and Implementation of Existing Individual and Environmental Workplace Health Promotion Interventions in Blue-Collar Work Settings

    Open AccessHanne C S Sponselee, Lies ter Beek et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Blue-collar workers often have disadvantageous health statuses and might therefore benefit from a combination of individual and environmental workplace health promotion interventions. Exploring stakeholders' perceived facilitators and barriers regarding the combined implementation of these interventions in blue-collar work settings is important for effective implementation. A qualitative study consisting of 20 stakeholder interviews within six ty…

  • Perceptions of employees with a low and medium level of education towards workplace health promotion programmes

    Open AccessHanne C S Sponselee, Willemieke Kroeze et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Employees with a medium level of education were more inclined to be interested in a WHPP than those with a low level of education. Focus groups suggested preferences varied depending on job type and related tasks. Recommendations are to allow WHPP design to adapt to this variation and facilitate flexible participation. Future research investigating employers' perceptions of WHPPs is needed to enable a mutual understanding of an effective programm…

  • The effects of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and a nutrient profiling tax based on Nutri-Score on consumer food purchases in a virtual supermarket

    Open AccessMichelle Eykelenboom, Margreet R Olthof et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To investigate the effects of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax and a nutrient profiling tax on consumer food purchases in a virtual supermarket. Design: A randomised controlled trial was conducted with a control condition with regular food prices ( n 152), an SSB tax condition ( n 130) and a nutrient profiling tax condition based on Nutri-Score ( n 112). Participants completed a weekly grocery shop for their household. Primary outc…

  • What Do Secondary Schools Need to Create Healthier Canteens? The Development of an Implementation Plan

    Open AccessIrma J Evenhuis, Ellis L Vyth et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Introduction: The Netherlands Nutrition Centre developed guidelines to improve the availability and accessibility of healthier food products in Dutch canteens. This paper describes the development of an implementation plan to facilitate implementation of Guidelines for Healthier Canteens in Dutch secondary schools. Materials and Methods: In cooperation with stakeholders (i.e., school/caterer managers/employees, school canteen advisors, researcher…

  • Involving Children in Creating a Healthy Environment in Low Socioeconomic Position (SEP) Neighborhoods in The Netherlands

    Open AccessLisa Wilderink, Ingrid Bakker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    To ensure that health behavior interventions for children living in low socioeconomic position (SEP) neighborhoods are in line with children's wishes and needs, participation of the children in the development, implementation, and evaluation is crucial. In this paper, we show how children living in three low-SEP neighborhoods in the Netherlands can be involved in Participatory Action Research (PAR) by using the photovoice method, and what influen…

  • Food and health promotion literacy among employees with a low and medium level of education in the Netherlands

    Open AccessHanne C S Sponselee, Willemieke Kroeze et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    This study suggests there is room for improvement in SPFL and HPL among adults with a low and medium level of education. Future research should consider comparing low and middle socioeconomic with high socioeconomic groups when exploring food and health literacy. Regarding health promotion activities for adults with a low and medium level of education, it is recommended to focus on improving both food and health literacy. Furthermore, more resear…

  • Public acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and its associated factors in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMichelle Eykelenboom, Maartje M Van Stralen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To investigate the level of public acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax and its associated factors. Design: Participants completed an online self-administered questionnaire. Acceptability of an SSB tax was measured on a seven-point Likert scale ( strongly disagree to strongly agree ). Associations between acceptability and sociodemographic factors, weight status, SSB consumption and beliefs about effectiveness (e.g., ‘…

  • Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States

    Open AccessDesana Kocevska, Thom S Lysen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020

  • A System Dynamics and Participatory Action Research Approach to Promote Healthy Living and a Healthy Weight among 10–14-Year-Old Adolescents in Amsterdam

    Open AccessWilma Waterlander, Angie Luna Pinzon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This paper describes the design of the LIKE programme, which aims to tackle the complex problem of childhood overweight and obesity in 10-14-year-old adolescents using a systems dynamics and participatory approach. The LIKE programme focuses on the transition period from 10-years-old to teenager and was implemented in collaboration with the Amsterdam Healthy Weight Programme (AHWP) in Amsterdam-East, the Netherlands. The aim is to develop, implem…

  • Implementation of Guidelines for Healthier Canteens in Dutch Secondary Schools

    Open AccessIrma J Evenhuis, Ellis L Vyth et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    The Netherlands Nutrition Centre has developed 'Guidelines for Healthier Canteens'. To facilitate their implementation, implementation tools were developed: stakeholders' questionnaires, the 'Canteen Scan' (an online tool to assess product availability/accessibility), a tailored advisory meeting/report, communication materials, establishment of an online community, newsletters, and a fact sheet with students' wishes/needs. In this quasi-experimen…

  • Background and evaluation design of a community-based health-promoting school intervention

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Monica Antonia Maria Ridder et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    ISRCTN67201841 ; date registered: 09-05-2019, retrospectively registered

  • The explanatory role of maternal feeding practices

    Open AccessNida Gizem Yılmaz, Carry M Renders et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019References: 40

  • Agreement between parent and child report of physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviours in 9-12-year-old children and associations with children’s weight status

    Open AccessMaaike Koning, Astrid de Jong et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2018

    There can be considerable disagreement between the health related behaviours of children as reported by parents or the children themselves. Based on the present study, it cannot be concluded whether parents' or children's reports are more accurate. For future studies, social desirability and recall bias would be best demonstrated in a validation study comparing child and parent self-reports with more objective measures of physical activity and fo…

  • Tools for a systematic appraisal of integrated community-based approaches to prevent childhood obesity

    Open AccessKrystallia Mantziki, Carry M Renders et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Large variability between integrated community-wide approaches preventing childhood obesity in the European region was identified and therefore each of them has different needs. Both tools used in combination seem to facilitate comprehensive assessment of integrated community-wide approaches in a systematic manner, which is rarely conducted. Nonetheless, the tools should be improved in line to their limitations as recommended in this manuscript

  • Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner

    Open AccessSilvia I Brouwer, Leanne K Küpers et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Higher PA in mothers, for instance in leisure activities, is related to higher PA in daughters, and more active fathers are related to more active sons. To support PA in young children, interventions could focus on the PA of the parent of the same sex as the child. Special attention may be needed for families where the parents have sedentary jobs, as children from these families seem to adopt more sedentary behaviour

  • Development of the ‘Canteen Scan’

    Open AccessIrma J Evenhuis, N L W J Wezenbeek et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The Canteen Scan provides insight into the extent to which canteens meet the Dutch Guidelines for Healthier Canteens. It also provides tailored feedback to support adjustments towards a healthier canteen and with the scan changes over time can be monitored. Pilot tests show this tool to be usable in practice