Adolescents encouraging healthy lifestyles through a peer-led social marketing intervention: Training and key competencies learned by peer leaders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescents who participate as peer leaders can benefit and acquire competencies from their peer leadership experience.

Objectives

To identify the competencies gained by adolescents who participated as peer leaders in a healthy lifestyle study and to determine whether the training characteristics were related to improvement in competencies.

Design

The present study was part of the European Youth Tackling Obesity (EYTO) project, a multicentre social marketing intervention involving four European countries.

Setting and participants

Eighteen peer leaders (aged 13-15 years, three or five leaders per country) from disadvantaged neighbourhoods received training in designing and implementing activities for their peers.

Measures

The peer leaders' conf

SUBMITTER: Llaurado E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8849247 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature