Clinical trial NCT02157402: EYTO (European Youth Tackling Obesity): A Randomized Controlled Trial in Catalonia (Spain)
Official title: A Youth Led Social Marketing Campaign to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles. EYTO (European Youth Tackling Obesity): A Randomized Controlled Trial in Catalonia (Spain)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Life Style
Keywords: Adolescent
Lead sponsor: University Rovira i Virgili
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: European Commission
name: Centro Tecnológico de Nutrición y Salud
name: Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus
name: Companhia de Ideas
name: Komunikujeme
name: National Children's Bureau
First posted: 2014-06-06
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Our hypothesis is that healthy lifestyles improvement by an intervention designed according 8 social marketing Benchmark criteria, can reduce overweight or obesity implemented by adolescents on their colleges.

The general aim of EYTO program is to improve health and well-being among adolescents who live in low socioeconomically communities, through an intervention study designed by selected adolescents with the inclusion of social marketing Benchmark criteria.

Detailed description: 5 adolescent coordinators (of intervention high-schools) will be trained by experts in social marketing and health promotion. This 5 selected adolescent as coordinators who will be in charge of the design of an 8 social marketing criteria intervention to implement their peers´ lifestyles.

The program has over two academic years. The participants will be followed for the duration of 2 academic years, an expected of up to 16 months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Informed consent signed by parents and/or guardians.
* Adolescents between 13 and 17 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

- The lack of one or more inclusion criteria.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of Fruit intake
timeFrame: Change from Baseline in fruit Intake at 2 academic years
measure: Change of Vegetable intake
timeFrame: Change from Baseline in vegetable Intake at 2 academic years
measure: Change of Physical activity practice
timeFrame: Change from Baseline in physical activity practice at 2 academic years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change of Sedentary behaviour
timeFrame: Change from Baseline in sedentary behaviour at 2 academic years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Reus
country: Spain
facility: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
state: Tarragona
Study officials:
affiliation: Centro Tecnológico de Nutrición y Salud
name: Rosa Solà Alberich, M.D., PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Aceves-Martins M, Llaurado E, Tarro L, Papell-Garcia I, Prades-Tena J, Kettner-Hoeberg H, Puiggros F, Arola L, Davies A, Giralt M, Sola R. "Som la Pera," a School-Based, Peer-Led Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle: A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study. Child Obes. 2022 Dec;18(8):556-571. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0207. Epub 2022 Mar 7.
citation: Llaurado E, Aceves-Martins M, Tarro L, Papell-Garcia I, Puiggros F, Arola L, Prades-Tena J, Montagut M, Moragas-Fernandez CM, Sola R, Giralt M. A youth-led social marketing intervention to encourage healthy lifestyles, the EYTO (European Youth Tackling Obesity) project: a cluster randomised controlled0 trial in Catalonia, Spain. BMC Public Health. 2015 Jul 3;15:607. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1920-1.