Costs and effects of a state-wide health promotion program in primary schools in Germany - the Baden-Wurttemberg Study: A cluster-randomized, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the state-wide implementation of the health promotion program "Join the Healthy Boat" in primary schools in Germany.

Methods

Cluster-randomized intervention trial with wait-list control group. Anthropometric data of 1733 participating children (7.1 ± 0.6 years) were taken by trained staff before and after a one year intervention period in the academic year 2010/11. Parents provided information about the health status, and the health behaviour of their children and themselves, parental anthropometrics, and socio-economic background variables. Incidence of abdominal obesity, defined as waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) ≥ 0.5, was determined. Generalized linear models were applied to account for the clustering of data within schools, and to

SUBMITTER: Kesztyus D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319648 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature