Three-year follow-up of the poiba intervention on childhood obesity : A quasi-experimental study
Sánchez-Martínez, Francesca (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Brugueras Torrella, Silvia (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Serral, Gemma (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Valmayor, Sara (Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona)
Juárez Martínez, Olga (Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona)
López Medina, María José (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Ariza, Carles (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	Childhood obesity has increased worldwide over the past four decades. This quasi-exper-imental study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a multicomponent and multilevel school-based intervention (POIBA) at 3 years of follow-up. The nutrition intervention focused on food groups, food pyramid, nutrients, portions, and balanced menus. In total, 3624 children participated in the study. Anthropometric measurements and information on food frequency and behavior, physical activity, and daily screen use were collected in the intervention (IG) and comparison group (CG). Positive unadjusted changes toward adherence to recommendations were found for water, meat, sweets, and fried potato consumption, proper breakfast, not having dinner in front of the TV, out-of-school physical activity, and daily screen use. Three scores were used to calculate the proportion of children making more than one change to improve healthy habits regarding physical activity (global Activity score), nutrition (global Nutrition score), and both (global score). Students exposed to the intervention had a significantly better global Activity score (16. 2% IG vs. 11. 9% CG; p = 0. 012) and Global score (63. 9% IG vs. 58. 5% CG; p = 0. 025). Intervention effects on obesity incidence at 3-year follow-up lost significance but maintained the positive trend. In conclusion, school-based interventions including a family component could be useful to address the childhood obesity problem.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2009/SGR-1345 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI09/02259
Note:	Altres ajuts: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Childhood obesity ; School-based program ; Effectiveness evaluation ; Adiposity ; Healthy eating ; Physical activity
Published in:	Nutrients, Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (february 2021) , p. 1-21, ISSN 2072-6643

DOI: 10.3390/nu13020453
PMID: 33573017

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