Author, as appears in the article.: Tarro L, Llauradó E, Aceves-Martins M, Moriña D, Papell-Garcia I, Arola L, Giralt M, Solà R
Department: Bioquímica i Biotecnologia Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: ACEVES MARTINS, MAGALY / Arola Ferrer, Luis Maria / Giralt Batista, Montserrat / Llauradó Ribé, Elisabet / Solà Alberich, Rosa Maria / Tarro Sánchez, Lucía
Keywords: Health behaviour Health promotion Lifestyle Public health
Abstract: Encouraging healthy lifestyles in children is a challenge. This project aimed to improve lifestyles of younger peers by engaging adolescent creators (ACs) to design and implement peer-led and social marketing (SM) health-promoting activities.A 10-month parallel-cluster randomised controlled school-based pilot study was performed in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Reus (Spain) spanning two academic years (2015-2016/2016-2017). Eight primary schools (n=375 children) and four high schools (n=94ACs) were randomly placed in the intervention group. The 94 ACs (12-14 years) designed and implemented four SM activities for their younger peers (9-11 years). Eight primary schools (n=327 children) and three high schools (n=98 adolescents) served as the control group and received no intervention. Primary (physical activity and fruit consumption) and secondary outcomes (screen time, vegetables, soft drinks, sweets and fast food consumptions) were assessed with validated questionnaires at baseline and at the end of the study.After 10 months, fruit consumption and physical activity were maintained in the children who consumed ≥1 fruit/day and spent ≥6 hours/week physical activity. However, compared with the controls, the intervention significantly increased the physical activity of girls to 15.6 min/week, whereas the percentage of girls who consumed sweets, soft drinks and fast food decreased significantly by 8.4%, 14.5% and 5.9%, respectively. Additionally, the percentage of ≥2 hour/weekday of screen time by boys decreased significantly by 8.2%.The European Youth Tackling Obesity-Kids, SM and peer-led intervention, effectively increased physical activity hours/week in girls, but was not effective in improving the percentage of children who consumed the recommended fruit. Moreover, the percentages of girls who consumed sweets, soft drinks and fast food and boys screen time decreased.NCT02702336; Pre-results.© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Thematic Areas: Biotecnología Ciência de alimentos Ciências ambientais Ciências biológicas i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas iii Ciencias sociales Economia Economics Educação física Enfermagem Ensino Epidemiology General medicine Interdisciplinar Medicina i Medicina ii Nutrição Odontología Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Psychology Public health, environmental and occupational health Public, environmental & occupational health Saúde coletiva Serviço social Sociologia i política
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: montse.giralt@urv.cat rosa.sola@urv.cat lluis.arola@urv.cat lucia.tarro@urv.cat elisabet.llaurado@urv.cat
ISSN: 0143005X
Author identifier: 0000-0002-7073-577X 0000-0002-8359-235X 0000-0003-2767-1974 0000-0002-8323-3576 0000-0002-7439-9531
Record's date: 2023-02-18
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://jech.bmj.com/content/73/4/324.long
Papper original source: Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health. 73 (4): 324-333
APA: Tarro L, Llauradó E, Aceves-Martins M, Moriña D, Papell-Garcia I, Arola L, Giralt M, Solà R (2019). Impact of a youth-led social marketing intervention run by adolescents to encourage healthy lifestyles among younger school peers (EYTO-Kids project): a parallel-cluster randomised controlled pilot study.. Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health, 73(4), 324-333. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-210163
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-210163
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2019
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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