Intervenções comportamentais de prevenção da obesidade infantil: Estado da arte em portugal

Filipe, Jessica; Godinho, Cristina; Graça, Pedro

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“…Up-to-date homogenous prevention strategies for childhood overweight and obesity are lacking and more community-environment-based preventive approaches are necessary [ 43 , 44 ]. Also, future research should focus on intervention sustainability [ 45 ] and impact evaluation [ 46 ]. In Portugal, impact evaluation of interventions is missing, therefore, it is crucial to provide their effectiveness in behaviour change [ 46 ].…”

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“…Also, future research should focus on intervention sustainability [ 45 ] and impact evaluation [ 46 ]. In Portugal, impact evaluation of interventions is missing, therefore, it is crucial to provide their effectiveness in behaviour change [ 46 ]. Thus, a school-based intervention named Sintra Grows Healthy (SGH) was developed to contribute to a community-environment-based preventive approach.…”

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A school-based intervention for a better future: study protocol of Sintra Grows Healthy

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Background Preventing childhood obesity is a public health challenge of the twenty-first century and it must be a priority. Governments play a major role in creating and supporting a healthy school environment and should prioritise actions to improve children’s health. Sintra Grows Healthy aims to promote healthy lifestyles to prevent childhood obesity and improve children’s health-related quality of life and social and emotional skills, through the development of a school evidence-based and sustainable model. Methods This protocol describes a quasi-experimental design and community-based participatory research. The participants included in the study are the school community of Portuguese public primary schools from the municipality of Sintra. Data will be collected on demographic and socio-economic characterization, nutritional status, eating habits and behaviours, physical activity, sedentary behaviours and sleep, health-related quality of life, and social and emotional skills. Discussion There is evidence to support interventions in school settings as strategies for obesity prevention. Up-to-date homogeneous and community-based interventions for preventing childhood obesity are lacking, therefore Sintra Grows Healthy intends to fill this gap. Furthermore, Sintra Grows Healthy aims to contribute with relevant scientific findings that will allow the development of better strategies for policymakers and society to manage this major public health problem.

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“…The current state of affairs shows that despite the extensive amount of investment to tackle this worrying picture, through campaigns or specific programs [15], the rates of obesity do not seem to be reverting. A plethora of interventions that worked to prevent or reduce the overweightness and obesity have been implemented and evaluated (e.g., [15,16]). Still, the results are elusive with small improvements at best.…”

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“…Moreover, interventions often lack a theoretical background underlying the activities [16]. The field of health is witnessing a shift from a disease model to a health promotion model [19,20].…”

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An online-based intervention to promote healthy eating through self-regulation among children: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Silva

Pereira

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Background Despite the enormous investment governments allocate to fight obesity, its worldwide prevalence is still on the rise. Moreover, the majority of the programs implemented are still targeting adults struggling with overweightness and focusing on transmitting knowledge about food. However, research shows that obesity prevention is more efficacious and cheaper, and beliefs about healthy eating have a stronger influence on eating behavior than declarative knowledge about food. In fact, knowledge about healthy eating only influences weight status when combined with self-regulation competences. Thus, the main goal of the current project is to develop and evaluate the efficacy of an online preventive intervention program, the HEP-S. This program is designed to promote and develop a set of transversal skills and strategies, related to self-regulation, on the healthy eating domain among school-aged children. Methods A three-armed randomized controlled trial will be conducted in several schools in Portugal. It will include a standard control group, with no intervention; an online intervention group, with the program for 20 weeks; and an enhanced online intervention group, with the program for 20 weeks embedded with gamification strategies throughout the program. Per research group, 40 groups of about 15 children each will be recruited and measured at five different time points. The three research groups will complete the same assessment protocol at the same timings (baseline, post-intervention, and 3, 6, and 9 months’ follow-ups). The assessment protocol will include anthropometric and psychological measures. The primary outcome measures will be the development of self-regulation skills for healthy eating over time, the development of self-efficacy attitudes, knowledge about healthy eating over time, and others. The secondary outcome measures will include the effect of gamification strategies, engagement, and satisfaction with the program, among others. The program will comprise the following: (i) a weekly group synchronous videoconference session with a trained educational psychologist serving as a mediator and (ii) a weekly parental involvement activity. Narratives, or story-tools, embedded with self-regulation strategies are at the core of the intervention. Discussion The program may play an important role in preventing risky and unhealthy eating behaviors by focusing on the development of self-regulation skills and strategies among elementary school children. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04099498. Registered on 23 September 2019.

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“…Hence, when studying pediatric overweight/obesity, a systems-oriented conceptualization may be useful (Hooper, Burnham, & Richey, 2009). Given the higher prevalence and alarming physical and psychosocial consequences related to pediatric obesity, the prevention of this CHC and studies in this area are a priority not only in Portugal but worldwide (Filipe, Godinho, & Graça, 2016).…”

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The Indirect Effect of Family Cohesion on Children’s Weight Status Through Maternal Quality of Life and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

Frontini

Haycraft

Canavarro

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Intervenções comportamentais de prevenção da obesidade infantil: Estado da arte em portugal

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

A school-based intervention for a better future: study protocol of Sintra Grows Healthy

A school-based intervention for a better future: study protocol of Sintra Grows Healthy

An online-based intervention to promote healthy eating through self-regulation among children: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

The Indirect Effect of Family Cohesion on Children’s Weight Status Through Maternal Quality of Life and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

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