biostudies-literatureDeBar LLNIDDK NIH HHS711https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3189889biostudies-literatureUnknown11<h4>Background</h4>As concern about youth obesity continues to mount, there is increasing consideration of widespread policy changes to support improved nutritional and enhanced physical activity offerings in schools. A critical element in the success of such programs may be to involve students as spokespeople for the program. Making such a public commitment to healthy lifestyle program targets (improved nutrition and enhanced physical activity) may potentiate healthy behavior changes among such students and provide a model for their peers. This paper examines whether student's "public commitment"--voluntary participation as a peer communicator or in student-generated media opportunities--in a school-based intervention to prevent diabetes and reduce obesity predicted improved study outcomeBMC public healthStudent public commitment in a school-based diabetes prevention project: impact on physical health and health behavior.PMC3189889U01 DK061230U01-DK61231U01-DK61230U01-DK61249U01-DK61223Stavinoha JCarter KTDobbins MHWilliams CGDeBar LKennel PPham THunter CHEALTHY study groupMazzuto SMcCormick SBruecker SStadler DEl ghormli LVenditti EMeehan RGiles KSolomon SOceguera AHall WKaufman FRMoe EGerstel ACreighton BJago RCusimano DSurapiboonchai KWhite MNachmani JBlackshear TWheeler AOpgrand NElliot DHirst KMcMurray RHindes KNichols CTatum LTRoullet JBSherman SStaten MSteckler AStadler DDSchneider MSiega-Riz AMAdams LHarrell JNoll RDeBar LLDrews KLHartstein JMurray TFord EGlick HHuang MMobley CDrews KThompson DLinder BHale DHernandez IZeveloff AMarcus MDCostello TBassin SGoldberg LVenditti EMHernandez AGillis BCarter MSpeich CEdelstein SWilli SBuse JMoe ELFoster GGarcia AVirus ABowen JGalassetti PMarcovina SMJessup AWhite MATrevino RMcNamee JKumanyika SClayton SKrause MRodriguez AXGiles CKolinjivadi PFord EGRodriguez YShowell BVanucci JRosen LAnderson AHernandez AECanada AGreenfield SCaveness JYin ZBaranowski JCullen KWVolpe SSmith MBrown JFaith MJakicic JFirrell SCooper DGrund HMFord DBaranowski TfalseStudent public commitment in a school-based diabetes prevention project: impact on physical health and health behavior.<h4>Background</h4>As concern about youth obesity continues to mount, there is increasing consideration of widespread policy changes to support improved nutritional and enhanced physical activity offerings in schools. A critical element in the success of such programs may be to involve students as spokespeople for the program. Making such a public commitment to healthy lifestyle program targets (improved nutrition and enhanced physical activity) may potentiate healthy behavior changes among such students and provide a model for their peers. This paper examines whether student's "public commitment"--voluntary participation as a peer communicator or in student-generated media opportunities--in a school-based intervention to prevent diabetes and reduce obesity predicted improved study outcome2011-01-01T00:00:00Z2011 Sep2025-04-19T01:17:53.766Z2019-03-27T00:44:44ZS-EPMC31898892193343110.1186/1471-2458-11-711