Lifestyle school-based intervention to increase the proportion of adolescents free of components of the metabolic syndrome in an andean region of Peru.

ABSTRACT:

Objective.

To estimate the impact of a school-based nutritional and healthy lifestyle intervention to increase the proportions of adolescents free of components of the metabolic syndrome.

Materials and methods.

We conducted a pre-experimental study in a representative sample of adolescents from two schools in a high Andean district of Peru (Cajamarca city); 388 students completed the intervention and the baseline and post-intervention measurement. The intervention had nine thematic modules; each module was developed in an educational session of 45 minutes every two weeks. We used the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel and Adult Treatment Panel III criteria for metabolic syndrome. We used paired proportions comparison (McNemar test) to determine the impact of

SUBMITTER: Garcia Flores SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11397716 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature