In:
Public Health Nutrition, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 22, No. 13 ( 2019-09), p. 2489-2499
Abstract:
To assess the effectiveness of a nutrition and physical activity (PA) intervention on dietary intake (DI), nutritional knowledge (NK), blood pressure (BP), anthropometric measures and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) of schoolchildren. Design: Longitudinal study. DI, NK, BMI, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), BP and CRF were all measured/calculated prior to (October 2014) and at the end of (June 2016) intervention delivery. Setting: Two primary schools (one intervention and one control), Cork, Ireland. Participants: Six-year-olds ( n 49; mean age = 6·09 ( sd 0·33) years) and 10-year-olds ( n 52; mean age = 9·90 ( sd 0·37) years). Results: There was a large and a moderate statistically significant difference between the change in systolic ( P = 0·005, effect size (ES) = 0·165) and diastolic BP ( P = 0·023, ES = 0·116), respectively, for 10-year-olds in the intervention and control groups. There was also a large statistically significant difference between the change in WHtR ( P = 0·0005, ES = 0·386) and a moderate statistically significant difference between the change in NK ( P = 0·027, ES = 0·107) for 10-year-olds in the intervention and control groups. There was a large statistically significant difference between the change in percentage of energy from protein in 10-year-old females ( P = 0·021, ES = 0·276) in the intervention and control groups. Conclusions: Project Spraoi is Ireland’s first ever school-based intervention that has been evaluated and proven effective in improving DI, NK, WHtR and BP in older primary-school children in one intervention school.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1368-9800
,
1475-2727
DOI:
10.1017/S1368980019001368
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2016337-X
SSG:
21
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