Can the Healthy Primary School of the Future offer perspective in the ongoing obesity epidemic in young children? A Dutch quasi-experimental study

Objectives Schools play an important role in promoting healthy behaviours in children and can offer perspective in the ongoing obesity epidemic. The ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ (HPSF) aims to improve children’s health and well-being by enhancing school health promotion. The current study aims to assess the effect of HPSF on children’s body mass index (BMI) z-score after 1 and 2 years follow-up and to investigate whether HPSF has different effects within specific subgroups of children. Design A longitudinal quasi-experimental design. Setting Four intervention and four control schools... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Bartelink, Nina H M
van Assema, Patricia
Kremers, Stef P J
Savelberg, Hans H C M
Oosterhoff, Marije
Willeboordse, Maartje
van Schayck, Onno C P
Winkens, Bjorn
Jansen, Maria W J
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Reihe/Periodikum: BMJ Open ; volume 9, issue 10, page e030676 ; ISSN 2044-6055 2044-6055
Verlag/Hrsg.: BMJ
Schlagwörter: General Medicine
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26650805
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030676