A school- and community-based intervention to promote healthy lifestyle and prevent type 2 diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe: design and implementation of the Feel4Diabetes-study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the design of the Feel4Diabetes-intervention and the baseline characteristics of the study sample.

Design

School- and community-based intervention with cluster-randomized design, aiming to promote healthy lifestyle and tackle obesity and obesity-related metabolic risk factors for the prevention of type 2 diabetes among families from vulnerable population groups. The intervention was implemented in 2016-2018 and included: (i) the 'all-families' component, provided to all children and their families via a school- and community-based intervention; and (ii) an additional component, the 'high-risk families' component, provided to high-risk families for diabetes as identified with a discrete manner by the FINDRISC questionnaire, which comprised seven counsell

SUBMITTER: Manios Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260800 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature