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EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey

BACKGROUND: Obesity treatment is by large ineffective long term, and more emphasis on the prevention of excessive weight gain in childhood and adolescence is warranted. To inform energy balance related behaviour (EBRB) change interventions, insight in the potential personal, family and school enviro...

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Autores principales: van Stralen, Maartje M, te Velde, Saskia J, Singh, Amika S, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Martens, Marloes K, van der Sluis, Maria, Manios, Yannis, Grammatikaki, Evangelia, Chinapaw¹, Mai JM, Maes, Lea, Bere, Elling, Jensen, Jorgen, Moreno, Luis, Jan, Nataša, Molnár, Dénes, Moore, Helen, Brug, Johannes
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21281466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-65
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author van Stralen, Maartje M
te Velde, Saskia J
Singh, Amika S
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Martens, Marloes K
van der Sluis, Maria
Manios, Yannis
Grammatikaki, Evangelia
Chinapaw¹, Mai JM
Maes, Lea
Bere, Elling
Jensen, Jorgen
Moreno, Luis
Jan, Nataša
Molnár, Dénes
Moore, Helen
Brug, Johannes
author_facet van Stralen, Maartje M
te Velde, Saskia J
Singh, Amika S
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Martens, Marloes K
van der Sluis, Maria
Manios, Yannis
Grammatikaki, Evangelia
Chinapaw¹, Mai JM
Maes, Lea
Bere, Elling
Jensen, Jorgen
Moreno, Luis
Jan, Nataša
Molnár, Dénes
Moore, Helen
Brug, Johannes
author_sort van Stralen, Maartje M
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Obesity treatment is by large ineffective long term, and more emphasis on the prevention of excessive weight gain in childhood and adolescence is warranted. To inform energy balance related behaviour (EBRB) change interventions, insight in the potential personal, family and school environmental correlates of these behaviours is needed. Studies on such multilevel correlates of EBRB among schoolchildren in Europe are lacking. The ENERGY survey aims to (1) provide up-to-date prevalence rates of measured overweight, obesity, self-reported engagement in EBRBs, and objective accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity and sedentary behaviour and blood-sample biomarkers of metabolic function in countries in different regions of Europe, (2) to identify personal, family and school environmental correlates of these EBRBs. This paper describes the design, methodology and protocol of the survey. METHOD/DESIGN: A school-based cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2010 in seven different European countries; Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, and Spain. The survey included measurements of anthropometrics, child, parent and school-staff questionnaires, and school observations to measure and assess outcomes (i.e. height, weight, and waist circumference), EBRBs and potential personal, family and school environmental correlates of these behaviours including the social-cultural, physical, political, and economic environmental factors. In addition, a selection of countries conducted accelerometer measurements to objectively assess physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and collected blood samples to assess several biomarkers of metabolic function. DISCUSSION: The ENERGY survey is a comprehensive cross-sectional study measuring anthropometrics and biomarkers as well as assessing a range of EBRBs and their potential correlates at the personal, family and school level, among 10-12 year old children in seven European countries. This study will result in a unique dataset, enabling cross country comparisons in overweight, obesity, risk behaviours for these conditions as well as the correlates of engagement in these risk behaviours.
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spelling pubmed-30446582011-02-25 EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey van Stralen, Maartje M te Velde, Saskia J Singh, Amika S De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse Martens, Marloes K van der Sluis, Maria Manios, Yannis Grammatikaki, Evangelia Chinapaw¹, Mai JM Maes, Lea Bere, Elling Jensen, Jorgen Moreno, Luis Jan, Nataša Molnár, Dénes Moore, Helen Brug, Johannes BMC Public Health Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Obesity treatment is by large ineffective long term, and more emphasis on the prevention of excessive weight gain in childhood and adolescence is warranted. To inform energy balance related behaviour (EBRB) change interventions, insight in the potential personal, family and school environmental correlates of these behaviours is needed. Studies on such multilevel correlates of EBRB among schoolchildren in Europe are lacking. The ENERGY survey aims to (1) provide up-to-date prevalence rates of measured overweight, obesity, self-reported engagement in EBRBs, and objective accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity and sedentary behaviour and blood-sample biomarkers of metabolic function in countries in different regions of Europe, (2) to identify personal, family and school environmental correlates of these EBRBs. This paper describes the design, methodology and protocol of the survey. METHOD/DESIGN: A school-based cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2010 in seven different European countries; Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, and Spain. The survey included measurements of anthropometrics, child, parent and school-staff questionnaires, and school observations to measure and assess outcomes (i.e. height, weight, and waist circumference), EBRBs and potential personal, family and school environmental correlates of these behaviours including the social-cultural, physical, political, and economic environmental factors. In addition, a selection of countries conducted accelerometer measurements to objectively assess physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and collected blood samples to assess several biomarkers of metabolic function. DISCUSSION: The ENERGY survey is a comprehensive cross-sectional study measuring anthropometrics and biomarkers as well as assessing a range of EBRBs and their potential correlates at the personal, family and school level, among 10-12 year old children in seven European countries. This study will result in a unique dataset, enabling cross country comparisons in overweight, obesity, risk behaviours for these conditions as well as the correlates of engagement in these risk behaviours. BioMed Central 2011-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3044658/ /pubmed/21281466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-65 Text en Copyright ©2011 van Stralen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Study Protocol
van Stralen, Maartje M
te Velde, Saskia J
Singh, Amika S
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Martens, Marloes K
van der Sluis, Maria
Manios, Yannis
Grammatikaki, Evangelia
Chinapaw¹, Mai JM
Maes, Lea
Bere, Elling
Jensen, Jorgen
Moreno, Luis
Jan, Nataša
Molnár, Dénes
Moore, Helen
Brug, Johannes
EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title_full EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title_fullStr EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title_full_unstemmed EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title_short EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth (ENERGY) project: Design and methodology of the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
title_sort european energy balance research to prevent excessive weight gain among youth (energy) project: design and methodology of the energy cross-sectional survey
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21281466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-65
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