A school-based, multi-faceted health promotion programme to prevent obesity among children: protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial (the DECIDE-Children study).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity is a public health concern that is becoming increasingly more serious worldwide. Effective and sustainable childhood obesity prevention strategies may help to reduce the prevalence of obesity and may have an impact on lifelong health. However, few such strategies have been rigorously evaluated for Chinese children in different regions of China.

Methods and analysis

The Diet, ExerCIse and CarDiovascular hEalth-Children is a cluster-randomised controlled trial that aims to assess the effectiveness and sustainability of a school-based, multi-faceted intervention to prevent obesity among Grade 4 primary school students (8-10 years old) in China. Twenty-four schools (approximately 1200 students) from above average, average and below average developed regions

SUBMITTER: Liu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830599 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature