School-Based Cardiovascular Health Promotion in Adolescents: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

School-based interventions offer an opportunity for health promotion in adolescence.

Objective

To assess the effect of 2 multicomponent educational health promotion strategies of differing duration and intensity on adolescents' cardiovascular health (CVH).

Design, setting, and participants

The SI! Program for Secondary Schools is a 4-year cluster randomized clinical intervention trial conducted in 24 secondary schools from Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, from September 7, 2017, to July 31, 2021. Eligible participants were adolescents enrolled in the first grade of secondary school.

Interventions

Schools and their participants were randomized to receive a health promotion intervention (SI! Program) over 4 school years (long-term intervention [LTI], 8 sch

SUBMITTER: Santos-Beneit G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10398546 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature