Development of the DAGIS intervention study: a preschool-based family-involving study promoting preschoolers' energy balance-related behaviours and self-regulation skills.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Preschoolers' energy balance-related behaviours (EBRBs) and self-regulation skills are important for their later health. Few preschool-based interventions aiming to promote preschoolers' EBRBs and self-regulation skills, simultaneously reducing differences in EBRBs, due to children's socio-economic status (SES) background, have been conducted. This study will present the Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (DAGIS) intervention development process applying the Intervention Mapping (IM) framework. METHODS:The development of the DAGIS intervention study, a preschool level clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT), was based on the IM framework. The protocol in IM guides the development process of an intervention through six steps: needs assessment and logic model of the

SUBMITTER: Ray C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6909522 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature