Effect of an educational intervention on diet and physical activity among school-aged adolescents in Delhi -The i-PROMISe (PROMoting health literacy in Schools) Plus Study

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Purpose: Emerging lifestyle changes due to rapid urbanization have led to an epidemiological transition and the rising prevalence of obesity is responsible for major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which have further aggravated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a comprehensive school-based intervention on diet and physical activity-related behavior of adolescents.

Methods: In 2019, a cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in randomly selected (n = 8) private schools. A 2-year intervention program was implemented over consecutive academic years (2019-2020 and 2020-2021) with students who were in the 6th and 7th grades when the study began. Four schools were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 794) and four schools to the control group (n = 774).

Results: The difference in changes in diet and physical-activity-related behaviors of the students between the intervention and control schools were not significant in the intention to treat analysis probably due to the large drop-out due to COVID-19 measures: 304 students were available for follow-up in the intervention group and 122 in the control group (391 cases were excluded to make data comparable with baseline survey). The intake of vegetables (once a day) [β = 0.35, OR = 1.42, 95% CI (1.03, 1.95)] in the per-protocol analysis has increased among adolescents in the intervention group as compared to the control group.

Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated a positive effect of the intervention on diet and physical-activity-related changes in the expected direction and highlights the importance of addressing such behavior to prevent obesity among adolescents and thus NCDs in the later stage of life.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2

Enthalten in:

Dialogues in health - 2(2023) vom: 14. Dez., Seite 100123

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rawal, Tina [VerfasserIn]
Muris, Jean W M [VerfasserIn]
Mishra, Vijay Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Arora, Monika [VerfasserIn]
Tandon, Nikhil [VerfasserIn]
van Schayck, Onno C P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Cluster RCT
Diet
India
Journal Article
Physical activity
School

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Date Revised 17.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100123

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354245775