Promoting health equity in European children: Design and methodology of the prospective EPHE (Epode for the Promotion of Health Equity) evaluation study

BMC Public Health

Jacob C Seidell⁸  Tommy LS Visscher³  Svetoslav Handjiev⁴  Stefaan de Henauw²  Pedro Graça¹  Maria João Gregório⁷  Hugues du Plessis⁵  Jean-Michel Borys⁵  Gabriella Radulian⁹  Achilleas Vassilopoulos⁶  Krystallia Mantziki⁸ 

[1] Directorate General of Health, Lisbon, Portugal;Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Research Centre for the Prevention of Overweight, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences Zwolle & VU University, Zwolle, The Netherlands;Bulgarian Association for the study of Obesity and related diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria;EPODE European Network Coordinating Team, Proteines, Paris, France;Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;Department of Health Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam 1081HV, The Netherlands;"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

关键词: Sleep;    Sedentary lifestyle;    Dietary intake;    EPODE;    Childhood obesity;    Health inequalities;   

Others  :  1131734
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-303

 received in 2014-02-12, accepted in 2014-03-26,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Reducing health inequalities is a top priority of the public health agendas in Europe. The EPHE project aims to analyse the added value of a community-based interventional programme based on EPODE methodology, adapted for the reduction of socio-economic inequalities in childhood obesity. The interventions that will be implemented by this project focus on four energy balance-related behaviours (fruit and vegetable consumption, tap water intake, physical inactivity, sleep duration) and their determinants. This article presents the design of the effect evaluation of the EPHE project.

Methods/Design

This is a prospective two-year follow-up evaluation study, which will collect data on the energy balance-related behaviours and potential environmental determinants of 6–8 year olds, depending on the socio-economic status of the parents. For this purpose a parental self-reported questionnaire is constructed. This assesses the socio-economic status of the parents (5 items) and the dietary (12 items), sedentary (2 items) and sleeping (4 items) behaviour of the child. Alongside potential family-environmental determinants are assessed. The EPHE parental questionnaire will be disseminated in schools of a selected medium-sized city in seven European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Portugal, Romania, The Netherlands).

Discussion

This study will evaluate the effects of the EPHE community-based interventional programmes. Furthermore, it will provide evidence for children’s specific energy balance-related behaviours and family environmental determinants related to socio-economic inequalities, in seven European countries.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Mantziki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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