Implementation and evaluation of a community-based health-promoting school intervention - Fit lifestyle at school and at home: the FLASH study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy lifestyles; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN67201841
• Lead Sponsor: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31221106/ protocol (added 09/12/2020) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35991016/ (added 23/08/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-05-09
• Study Completion: 2020-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 September 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

All schools:
1. School offers prevocational education (lowest education level in the Netherlands)
2. School is committed to participate in evaluation research for four years

Inclusion criteria for intervention schools:
1. Willing to implement the FLASH intervention, e.g. create a healthy school community regarding health PA and dietary behavior
2. Willing to facilitate new health-promotion activities
3. Willing to appoint a staff member to coordinate the intervention

Inclusion criteria for control schools:
1. Control schools match on the following characteristics to an intervention school: size (total number of prevocational students registered), physical environment (rural vs. urban environment), types of education offered (school offers exclusively prevocational education vs. schools offer prevocational education and higher types of secondary education)

Individual level:
1. All students enrolled in prevocational education
2. Informed consent from student and parent

Exclusion Criteria

For control schools:
1. Schools that fall under the direction of the educational organization that co-developed the FLASH intervention. This organization facilitates secondary and vocational education in the North-eastern region of the Netherlands. Therefore, schools in this region are excluded for control schools to prevent contamination of results due to connection between these schools and the educational organization.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified