Author, as appears in the article.: Giralt M; Albaladejo R; Tarro L; Moriña D; Arija V; Solà R
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: Arija Val, Maria Victoria / Giralt Batista, Montserrat / Llauradó Ribé, Elisabet / Solà Alberich, Rosa Maria / Tarro Sánchez, Lucía
Keywords: Zero hunger
Abstract: The EdAL (Educació en Alimentació) study is a long-term, nutrition educational, primary-school-based program designed to prevent obesity by promoting a healthy lifestyle that includes dietary recommendations and physical activity.The aims are: 1) to evaluate the effects of a 3-year school-based life-style improvement program on the prevalence of obesity in an area of north-west Mediterranean 2) To design a health-promotion program to be implemented by health-promoter agents (university students) in primary schools.1) The intervention study is a randomised, controlled, school-based program performed by university-student health-promoter agents. Initial pupil enrolment was in 2006 and continued for 3 years. We considered two clusters (designated as cluster A and cluster B) as the units for randomisation. The first cluster involved 24 schools from Reus and the second involved 14 schools from surrounding towns Cambrils, Salou and Vilaseca combined in order to obtain comparable groups. There are very good communications between schools in each town, and to avoid cross influence of the programs resulting from inter-school dialogue, the towns themselves were the unit for randomisation. Data collected included name, gender, date and place of birth at the start of the program and, subsequently, weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference every year for 3 years. Questionnaires on eating and physical activity habits are filled-in by the parents at the start and end of the study and, providing that informed consent is given, the data are analysed on the intention-to-treat basis.The interventions are based on 8 nutritional and physical activity objectives. They are implemented by university students as part of the university curriculum in training health-promoter agents. These 8 objectives are developed in 4 educational activities/year for 3 years (a total of 12 activities; 1 h/activity) performed by the health-promoter agents in primary schools. Control pupils follow their usual activities.2) Courses on education and promotion of health, within in the curriculum of medicine and health sciences for university students, are designed to train health-promoter agents to administer these activities in primary schools.This controlled school-based intervention will test the possibility of preventing childhood obesity.ISRCTN: ISRCTN29247645.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psicología Pharmacology (medical) Odontología Nutrição Medicine, research & experimental Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Interdisciplinar Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências ambientais Biotecnología Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 17456215
Author's mail: elisabet.llaurado@urv.cat montse.giralt@urv.cat rosa.sola@urv.cat victoria.arija@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-7439-9531 0000-0002-7073-577X 0000-0002-8359-235X 0000-0002-1758-0975
Record's date: 2024-11-16
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Trials. 12 (1): 54-
APA: Giralt M; Albaladejo R; Tarro L; Moriña D; Arija V; Solà R (2011). A primary-school-based study to reduce prevalence of childhood obesity in Catalunya (Spain) - EDAL-Educació en alimentació: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12(1), 54-. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-54
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2011
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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