A Health Promotion Intervention for Vulnerable School (BeE-school)

University of Minho

Status: Completed

Conditions: Noncommunicable Diseases; Child Development; Health Promotion; Life Style; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention program BeE-school

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05395364

UMinho

Details and patient eligibility

About

The BeE-school (Be Empowered in school) is a cluster-randomised trial that addresses the complexity of the social challenge (vulnerable school-age children). It aims to analyse the effectiveness of the intervention program, based on the promotion of health literacy and lifestyles, specifically on children's: 1-health literacy and infodemic resilience (Aim 1); 2- lifestyles (e.g. dietary intake, 24hmovement behaviour) (Aim 2); 3-overweight and obesity (Aim 3); 4-blood pressure (Aim 4). The project converges multiple disciplines (e.g. public health, informatics, law) and researchers with proven expertise in these fields to provide comprehensive and innovative answers. 478 children (6 schools) aged 6-12years old will participate in this cluster-randomised trial, having schools as the unit of randomisation, assigned into intervention (239-3schools) and the control arm (239 - 3 schools). This project will perform a social listening (online and offline) and bottom-up approach to tackling NCDs, focusing on health literacy and health promotion and recognising children's systems in daily life (e.g. family, teachers). Stakeholders' involvement goes far beyond a merely consultative approach; the researchers are committed to a genuine codevelopment process. Data collection includes sociodemographics, health literacy and infodemic resilience, dietary intake and children's 24-h movement behaviour (e.g. accelerometry), anthropometry (e.g. weight, height and waist circumference) and blood pressure. Data collection will occur at baseline and after the intervention (follow-up, 6 months after the beginning of the intervention). Expected outputs and outcomes include the creation of a model for characterising NCDs and health topics based on artificial intelligence techniques (e.g. deep learning, and social network analysis methods); improved health literacy and infodemic resilience of children, families and teachers; enhanced children's lifestyles (e.g. dietary intake, 24-h movement behaviour); reduction of NCDs' physical risk factors (e.g. overweight, raised blood pressure); feasible intervention program about health promotion and NCDs' prevention for school-aged children with vulnerabilities, and advocacy- policies about health promotion and NCDs' prevention.

Enrollment: 735 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children from TEIP schools
• Ages between 5 to 12 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Children/families who don't speak/understand Portuguese

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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735 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will occur.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

An intervention program based on the promotion of health literacy and lifestyles, specifically on children's: 1-health literacy and infodemic resilience; 2- lifestyles (e.g. dietary intake, 24h-movement behaviour); 3-overweight and obesity; 4-blood pressure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention program BeE-school