The assessment of ongoing community-based interventions to prevent obesity: lessons learned

BMC Public Health

Patricia van Assema¹  Stef PJ Kremers¹  Jeroen Lakerveld⁴  Ingrid Leversen³  Leonie FM Kohl¹  Tim Lobstein²  Oddrun Samdal³  Frida KS Mathisen³  Jessica S Gubbels¹ 

[1] Department of Health Promotion, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht 6200, MD, The Netherlands;World Obesity Federation, 12 Roger Street, London WC1N 2JU, UK;Department of Health Promotion and Development, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, N-5020, Norway;EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorstraat 7, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands

关键词: Community;    Prevention;    Physical activity;    Nutrition;    Obesity;    Interventions;    RE-AIM;    Questionnaires;    Data collection;   

Others  :  1137097
DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-015-1563-2

 received in 2014-10-08, accepted in 2015-02-17,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

The assessment of real-life, community-based interventions to tackle obesity is an important step in the development of effective policies. Especially multi-level interventions have a high likely effectiveness and potential reach in counteracting the obesity epidemic. Although much can be learned from these initiatives, performing an evaluation of such interventions is challenging. The aim of the current article is to provide a descriptive overview of the data collection process and general results of an assessment of ongoing multi-level obesity prevention community interventions for adults in Europe, and the lessons learned from this effort.

Methods

The data collection was divided into two main phases: a) finding the ongoing obesity prevention interventions by contacting key informants in each of the European Union countries and the European Economic Area, and searching existing databases; and b) collecting detailed information (including the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance (RE-AIM)) of the selected interventions using questionnaires for informants in each of the interventions.

Results

A total of 78 interventions from 24 European countries were included in the final sample. The number of identified interventions varied greatly per country. The interventions covered various implementation levels (national, regional or local) and determinants (physical, sociocultural, economic, political), mostly addressing both nutrition and physical activity behaviours.

Conclusions

We found that many multi-level obesity prevention interventions among adults are currently active in Europe, although we found relatively few in Southern and Eastern Europe. Identifying interventions and obtaining detailed information proved to be a difficult, time consuming and painstaking process. We discuss some of the reasons why this might be the case and present recommendations based on our experiences. We suggest that future research uses a step-wise approach, keeping participant burden to a minimum. The use of personalised and tailored strategies is recommended, led by researchers who exercise flexibility, tact and patience during the data collection process.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Gubbels et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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