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The Impact of an Intervention Taught by Trained Teachers on Childhood Overweight

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a six-months’ nutrition program, delivered and taught by classroom teachers with in-service nutrition training, on the prevention of overweight and obesity among children in grades 1 to 4. In this randomized trial, four hundred and sixty four ch...

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Autores principales: Rosário, Rafaela, Oliveira, Bruno, Araújo, Ana, Lopes, Oscar, Padrão, Patrícia, Moreira, André, Teixeira, Vítor, Barros, Renata, Pereira, Beatriz, Moreira, Pedro
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Publicado: MDPI 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3366616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22690198
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9041355
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author Rosário, Rafaela
Oliveira, Bruno
Araújo, Ana
Lopes, Oscar
Padrão, Patrícia
Moreira, André
Teixeira, Vítor
Barros, Renata
Pereira, Beatriz
Moreira, Pedro
author_facet Rosário, Rafaela
Oliveira, Bruno
Araújo, Ana
Lopes, Oscar
Padrão, Patrícia
Moreira, André
Teixeira, Vítor
Barros, Renata
Pereira, Beatriz
Moreira, Pedro
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description The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a six-months’ nutrition program, delivered and taught by classroom teachers with in-service nutrition training, on the prevention of overweight and obesity among children in grades 1 to 4. In this randomized trial, four hundred and sixty four children from seven elementary schools were allocated to a nutrition educational program delivered by their own teachers. Intervened teachers had 12 sessions of three hours each with the researchers throughout six months, according to the topics nutrition and healthy eating, the importance of drinking water and healthy cooking activities. After each session, teachers were encouraged to develop activities in class focused on the learned topics. Sociodemographic, anthropometric, dietary, and physical activity assessments were performed at baseline and at the end of the intervention. In the intervention group the increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) z-score was significantly lower than in the control group (p = 0.009); fewer proportion of children became overweight in the intervened group compared with the control (5.6% vs. 18.4%; p = 0.037). Our study provides further support to decrease the overweight epidemic, involving classroom teachers in a training program and making them dedicated interventionists.
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spelling pubmed-33666162012-06-11 The Impact of an Intervention Taught by Trained Teachers on Childhood Overweight Rosário, Rafaela Oliveira, Bruno Araújo, Ana Lopes, Oscar Padrão, Patrícia Moreira, André Teixeira, Vítor Barros, Renata Pereira, Beatriz Moreira, Pedro Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a six-months’ nutrition program, delivered and taught by classroom teachers with in-service nutrition training, on the prevention of overweight and obesity among children in grades 1 to 4. In this randomized trial, four hundred and sixty four children from seven elementary schools were allocated to a nutrition educational program delivered by their own teachers. Intervened teachers had 12 sessions of three hours each with the researchers throughout six months, according to the topics nutrition and healthy eating, the importance of drinking water and healthy cooking activities. After each session, teachers were encouraged to develop activities in class focused on the learned topics. Sociodemographic, anthropometric, dietary, and physical activity assessments were performed at baseline and at the end of the intervention. In the intervention group the increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) z-score was significantly lower than in the control group (p = 0.009); fewer proportion of children became overweight in the intervened group compared with the control (5.6% vs. 18.4%; p = 0.037). Our study provides further support to decrease the overweight epidemic, involving classroom teachers in a training program and making them dedicated interventionists. MDPI 2012-04-16 2012-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3366616/ /pubmed/22690198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9041355 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Barros, Renata
Pereira, Beatriz
Moreira, Pedro
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