A school- and community-based intervention to promote healthy lifestyle and prevent type 2 diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe
Design and implementation of the Feel4Diabetes-study
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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 evidence-based 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
Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Family medicine · Grandparent · Intervention (counseling · Obesity · Population · Public health · Chronic Disease Management Strategies · Diabetes Management and Education · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Gerontology
The Feel4Diabetes intervention
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