Creating healthy school communities by sound teamwork

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam0 sites400 target enrollmentMay 9, 2019

Overview

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)

Registry

who.int

Start Date

May 9, 2019

End Date

January 31, 2020

Last Updated

3 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•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:

•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.