biostudies-literatureHuys NHorizon 20201231https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7425007biostudies-literatureUnknown20(1)BACKGROUND:The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the European Feel4Diabetes intervention, promoting a healthy lifestyle, on physical activity and its correlates among families at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (based on the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score) in Belgium. METHODS:The Feel4Diabetes intervention involved three components: family, school and community component, with the family component consisting of 6 counseling sessions for families at risk. Main outcomes were objectively measured physical activity levels and its subjectively measured correlates. The final sample consisted of 454 parents (mean age 39.4 years; 72.0% women) and 444 children (mean age 8.0 years; 50.1% girls). Multilevel repeated measures analyses were performed to assess intervention effectiveness afBMC public healthEffectiveness of a family-, school- and community-based intervention on physical activity and its correlates in Belgian families with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Feel4Diabetes-study.PMC7425007643708Laatikainen TMandalia MMoreno LAKatsarou CKivela JTsirigoti LPanchyrz ILiatis SJarauta ELambrinou CPDouligeris AKakoulis DFappa EDe Miguel-Etayo PWendel-Mitoraj KMaragkopoulou KCardon GWikstrom KKoutsi RUngvari TTzormpatzaki EShadid SMakrilakis KNanasi ATimpel PAnastasiou CValve PAnnemans LRadkova ZMateo-Gallego RManios YIotova VPall NTsoutsoulopoulou KDimova RFilippou ADe Craemer MFilippou CGiannopoulou ABocheva YUsheva NBueno GKechribari INelimarkka KKouroupaki KRodriguez GFeel4Diabetes-study groupPil LKarachaliou Ade Sabata MSVicente-Rodriguez GMartinez RArgyri EAndroutsos OMarinova VManou ELatomme JKolozsvari LGonzalez-Gil EMSchwarz PCiveira FJancso ZDafoulas GCenarro ATankova TBaila-Rueda LMpinou PRabemananjara LGalcheva SKaraglani EVampouli EAJoutsenniemi KMoschonis GHolland MRurik ITong MEfstathopoulou EKontogianni MHuys NVan Stappen VZachari KTsochev KMesana MIMoreno LChakarova NLindstrom JMavrogianni CNikolaou MfalseEffectiveness of a family-, school- and community-based intervention on physical activity and its correlates in Belgian families with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Feel4Diabetes-study.BACKGROUND:The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the European Feel4Diabetes intervention, promoting a healthy lifestyle, on physical activity and its correlates among families at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (based on the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score) in Belgium. METHODS:The Feel4Diabetes intervention involved three components: family, school and community component, with the family component consisting of 6 counseling sessions for families at risk. Main outcomes were objectively measured physical activity levels and its subjectively measured correlates. The final sample consisted of 454 parents (mean age 39.4 years; 72.0% women) and 444 children (mean age 8.0 years; 50.1% girls). Multilevel repeated measures analyses were performed to assess intervention effectiveness af2020-01-01T00:00:00Z2020 Aug2025-05-31T23:51:23.472Z2025-05-31T23:51:23.472ZS-EPMC74250073278794310.1186/s12889-020-09336-7