Evidence-based development of school-based and family-involved prevention of overweight across Europe: The ENERGY-project's design and conceptual framework

BMC Public Health

Correspondence

Jo Salmon¹  Saskia J te Velde²  Johannes Brug²  Ilse de Bourdeaudhuij³  Yannis Manios⁴  Nanna Lien⁵  Knut Inge Klepp⁵  Mai JM Chinapaw⁶  Amika S Singh⁶  Lea Maes⁷  Elling Bere⁸  Jorgen Jensen⁹  Tim Lobstein^1,10  Helen Moore^1,11  Marloes Martens^1,12 

[1] Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece;Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Department of Public & Occupational Health and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Faculty of Health and Sport, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway;Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;International Association for the Study of Obesity, London, UK;Obesity related behaviours research group, Durham University, Durham, UK;Rescon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

关键词: Sedentary Behavior;    Obesity Prevention;    Secondary Data Analysis;    Weight Gain Prevention;    Behavioral Determinant;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-10-276

 received in 2010-01-05, accepted in 2010-05-25,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThere is an urgent need for more carefully developed public health measures in order to curb the obesity epidemic among youth. The overall aim of the "EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth" (ENERGY)-project is the development and formative evaluation of a theory-informed and evidence-based multi-component school-based and family-involved intervention program ready to be implemented and evaluated for effectiveness across Europe. This program aims at promoting the adoption or continuation of health behaviors that contribute to a healthy energy balance among school-aged children. Earlier studies have indicated that school and family environments are key determinants of energy-balance behaviors in schoolchildren. Schools are an important setting for health promotion in this age group, but school-based interventions mostly fail to target and involve the family environment.MethodsLed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from eleven European countries and supported by a team of Australian experts, the ENERGY-project is informed by the Environmental Research Framework for Weight gain Prevention, and comprises a comprehensive epidemiological analysis including 1) systematic reviews of the literature, 2) secondary analyses of existing data, 3) focus group research, and 4) a cross European school-based survey.Results and discussionThe theoretical framework and the epidemiological analysis will subsequently inform stepwise intervention development targeting the most relevant energy balance-related behaviors and their personal, family-environmental and school-environmental determinants applying the Intervention Mapping protocol. The intervention scheme will undergo formative and pilot evaluation in five countries. The results of ENERGY will be disseminated among key stakeholders including researchers, policy makers and the general population.ConclusionsThe ENERGY-project is an international, multidisciplinary effort to develop and test an evidence-based and theory-informed intervention program for obesity prevention among school-aged children.

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