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At the school level, institutional theory (IT: DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) guided the analysis of the process by which mandatory (law) and nonmandatory (health campaign) anti-obesity messages were taken up in three types of Chilean schools: public schools, state-subsidized private schools, and tuition-supported schools. At the personal level, teachers' intentions to include anti-obesity messages in their teaching activities were studied using the theory of planned behavior (TPB: Ajzen, 1985). Teachers’ intentions were examined through attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control at the TPB level; institutional pressures over messages were also analyzed from the influence of coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphic pressures from the IT perspective. 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