Impact of a one-year school-based teacher-implemented nutrition and physical activity intervention: main findings and future recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of the current study is to describe the effectiveness of a school-based intervention when delivered by a non-nutrition specialist (trained schoolteachers) as compared to an expert in nutrition.

Methods

Two trials of the same school-based intervention using the same intervention package were delivered, one by nutritionists and another by trained schoolteachers. The intervention focused mainly on dietary behaviours, as well as physical activity. In both trials, purposively selected schools were randomized to intervention or control groups; students (aged 9-11 years) in both groups were compared at post-test on knowledge and self-efficacy scores, as well as dietary and physical activity behaviours, controlling for their baseline status on the various measures

SUBMITTER: Habib-Mourad C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7031897 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature