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Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework
BACKGROUND: Building community capacity in secondary schools is a promising strategy for the sustainable implementation of school-based health promotion. The Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention explored how building community capacity works for the prevention of overweight follo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381984/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926465 |
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author | van Dongen, Bonnie Maria de Vries, Inge Maria Ridder, Monica Antonia Maria de Boer, Michiel Steenhuis, Ingrid Hendrika Margaretha Renders, Carry Mira |
author_facet | van Dongen, Bonnie Maria de Vries, Inge Maria Ridder, Monica Antonia Maria de Boer, Michiel Steenhuis, Ingrid Hendrika Margaretha Renders, Carry Mira |
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description | BACKGROUND: Building community capacity in secondary schools is a promising strategy for the sustainable implementation of school-based health promotion. The Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention explored how building community capacity works for the prevention of overweight following four strategies: leadership, participatory school culture, tailored health-promotion activities, and local networks. This study evaluates the intervention's impact on community capacity and capacity-building processes over a period of 3 years, as well as its effects on adolescents' BMI and waist circumference. METHODS: A mixed-methods design guided by the RE-AIM framework was used. Impact on community capacity was evaluated with semi-structured interviews at the start and end of the intervention and analyzed using an anchored coding scale. Capacity-building processes were evaluated using interviews, journals, questionnaires, and the minutes of meetings. The effects on BMI z-scores and waist circumference were evaluated using a quasi-experimental design comparing an intervention (IG) and reference group (RG), based on multi-level analyses. RESULTS: Community capacity improved across all intervention schools but varied between capacity-building strategies. Leadership recorded the greatest improvements, aided by the appointment of Healthy School Coordinators, who increasingly focused on coordinating processes and fostering collaborations. Participatory school culture also improved through the adoption and implementation of participatory methods and a general increase in awareness concerning the importance of the Healthy School approach. Although additional health-promotion activities were implemented, stakeholders struggled with tailoring these to the specific dynamics of their schools. Limited improvements were observed in setting-up local networks that could help schools encourage healthy behavior among pupils. Differences in BMI z-scores between IG and RG over the total sample were negligible whereas waist circumference increased slightly more in IG (0.99 cm, 95% CI [.04; 1.93]). However, differences were inconsistent over time and between cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the potential of building community capacity. It emphasizes that this is a process in which stakeholders must become acquainted with new leadership roles and responsibilities. To navigate this process, schools need support in improving communication, establishing local networks, and sustaining capacity-building efforts in school policy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN67201841; date registered: 09/05/2019, retrospectively registered. |
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spelling | pubmed-93819842022-08-18 Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework van Dongen, Bonnie Maria de Vries, Inge Maria Ridder, Monica Antonia Maria de Boer, Michiel Steenhuis, Ingrid Hendrika Margaretha Renders, Carry Mira Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Building community capacity in secondary schools is a promising strategy for the sustainable implementation of school-based health promotion. The Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention explored how building community capacity works for the prevention of overweight following four strategies: leadership, participatory school culture, tailored health-promotion activities, and local networks. This study evaluates the intervention's impact on community capacity and capacity-building processes over a period of 3 years, as well as its effects on adolescents' BMI and waist circumference. METHODS: A mixed-methods design guided by the RE-AIM framework was used. Impact on community capacity was evaluated with semi-structured interviews at the start and end of the intervention and analyzed using an anchored coding scale. Capacity-building processes were evaluated using interviews, journals, questionnaires, and the minutes of meetings. The effects on BMI z-scores and waist circumference were evaluated using a quasi-experimental design comparing an intervention (IG) and reference group (RG), based on multi-level analyses. RESULTS: Community capacity improved across all intervention schools but varied between capacity-building strategies. Leadership recorded the greatest improvements, aided by the appointment of Healthy School Coordinators, who increasingly focused on coordinating processes and fostering collaborations. Participatory school culture also improved through the adoption and implementation of participatory methods and a general increase in awareness concerning the importance of the Healthy School approach. Although additional health-promotion activities were implemented, stakeholders struggled with tailoring these to the specific dynamics of their schools. Limited improvements were observed in setting-up local networks that could help schools encourage healthy behavior among pupils. Differences in BMI z-scores between IG and RG over the total sample were negligible whereas waist circumference increased slightly more in IG (0.99 cm, 95% CI [.04; 1.93]). However, differences were inconsistent over time and between cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the potential of building community capacity. It emphasizes that this is a process in which stakeholders must become acquainted with new leadership roles and responsibilities. To navigate this process, schools need support in improving communication, establishing local networks, and sustaining capacity-building efforts in school policy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN67201841; date registered: 09/05/2019, retrospectively registered. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9381984/ /pubmed/35991016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926465 Text en Copyright © 2022 van Dongen, de Vries, Ridder, de Boer, Steenhuis and Renders. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health van Dongen, Bonnie Maria de Vries, Inge Maria Ridder, Monica Antonia Maria de Boer, Michiel Steenhuis, Ingrid Hendrika Margaretha Renders, Carry Mira Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title | Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title_full | Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title_fullStr | Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title_full_unstemmed | Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title_short | Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools: Evaluation of the FLASH intervention using the REAIM framework |
title_sort | building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in dutch secondary schools: evaluation of the flash intervention using the reaim framework |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381984/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926465 |
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