A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention To Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle ("We Are Cool"-Som la Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study

Encouraging adolescents to adopt healthy lifestyles can be challenging. The aim of the "Som la Pera" study was to engage adolescents by applying new strategies to increase both their fruit and vegetable consumption and their physical activity (PA) while reducing their sedentary behavior. I...

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Published in:Childhood obesity 2017-08, Vol.13 (4), p.300-313
Main Authors: Aceves-Martins, Magaly, Llauradó, Elisabet, Tarro, Lucia, Moriña, David, Papell-Garcia, Ignasi, Prades-Tena, Jordi, Kettner-Høeberg, Helle, Puiggròs, Francesc, Arola, Lluís, Davies, Amy, Giralt, Montse, Solà, Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Child development
Children & youth
Cluster Analysis
Diet - statistics & numerical data
Disease prevention
Exercise
Female
Fruit
Health Behavior
Health care
Health education
Health promotion
Healthy Lifestyle
Humans
Influence
Intervention
Life Style
Lifestyles
Low income groups
Male
Medicine
Neighborhoods
Nutrition
Obesity
Oxidation
Peer Group
Peers
Poverty
Project evaluation
Public health
School effectiveness
Schools
Sedentary behavior
Sedentary Lifestyle
Social Marketing
Society
Spain
Surgery
Teenagers
Vegetables
Vulnerable Populations
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Summary:Encouraging adolescents to adopt healthy lifestyles can be challenging. The aim of the "Som la Pera" study was to engage adolescents by applying new strategies to increase both their fruit and vegetable consumption and their physical activity (PA) while reducing their sedentary behavior. In disadvantaged neighborhoods of Reus (Spain), two high schools were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 170 adolescents 13- to 16-year-olds) and two were assigned to the control group (n = 223 adolescents 13- to 16-year-olds). The intervention, which lasted 12 months and spanned 2 academic years (2013-2015), used social marketing (SM) to improve healthy choices. The peer-led strategy involved 5 adolescents who designed and implemented 10 activities as challenges for their 165 school-aged peers. The control group received no intervention. To assess self-reported lifestyles in both groups, the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey was used at baseline and end of study. After 12 months, intervention adolescents showed an increase of 28.9% in ≥1 fruit/day (p 
ISSN:2153-2168
2153-2176
DOI:10.1089/chi.2016.0216