Objective: To describe the design of the Feel4Diabetes-intervention and the baseline characteristics of the study sample.
Design: School- and community-based intervention with cluster-randomized design, aiming to promote healthy lifestyle and tackle obesity and obesity-related metabolic risk factors for the prevention of type 2 diabetes among families from vulnerable population groups. The intervention was implemented in 2016–2018 and included: (i) the ‘all-families’ component, provided to all children and their families via a school- and community-based intervention; and (ii) an additional component, the ‘high-risk families’ component, provided to high-risk families for diabetes as identified with a discrete manner by the FINDRISC questionnaire, which comprised seven counselling sessions (2016–2017) and a text-messaging intervention (2017–2018) delivered by trained health professionals in out-of-school settings. Although the intervention was adjusted to local needs and contextual circumstances, standardized protocols and procedures were used across all countries for the process, impact, outcome and cost-effectiveness evaluation of the intervention.
Setting: Primary schools and municipalities in six European countries.
Subjects: Families (primary-school children, their parents and grandparents) were recruited from the overall population in low/middle-income countries (Bulgaria, Hungary), from low socio-economic areas in high-income countries (Belgium, Finland) and from countries under austerity measures (Greece, Spain).
Results: The Feel4Diabetes-intervention reached 30 309 families from 236 primary schools. In total, 20 442 families were screened and 12 193 ‘all families’ and 2230 ‘high-risk families’ were measured at baseline.
Conclusions: The Feel4Diabetes-intervention is expected to provide evidencebased results and key learnings that could guide the design and scaling-up of affordable and potentially cost-effective population-based interventions for the prevention of type 2 diabetes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:70732 |
| Date | 04 June 2020 |
| Creators | Manios, Yannis, Androutsos, Odysseas, Lambrinou, Christina-Paulina, Cardon, Greet, Lindstrom, Jaana, Annemans, Lieven, Mateo-Gallego, Rocio, de Sabata, Maria Stella, Iotova, Violeta, Kivela, Jemina, Martinez, Remberto, Moreno, Luis A, Rurik, Imre, Schwarz, Peter, Tankova, Tsvetalina T, Liatis, Stavros, Makrilakis, Konstantinos |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1368-9800, 1475-2727, 10.1017/S1368980018002136, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Union/Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme/643708/ |
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