Battling the obesity epidemic with a school-based intervention: Long-term effects of a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

School-based health-promoting interventions are increasingly seen as an effective population strategy to improve health and prevent obesity. Evidence on the long-term effectiveness of school-based interventions is scarce. This study investigates the four-year effectiveness of the school-based Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) intervention on children's body mass index z-score (BMIz), and on the secondary outcomes waist circumference (WC), dietary and physical activity (PA) behaviours.

Methods and findings

This study has a quasi-experimental design with four intervention schools, i.e., two full HPSFs (focus: diet and PA), two partial HPSFs (focus: PA), and four control schools. Primary school children (aged 4-12 years) attending the eight participating sc

SUBMITTER: Willeboordse M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9514666 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature