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Trial baseline characteristics of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-located obesity prevention programme; the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial

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Title
Trial baseline characteristics of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-located obesity prevention programme; the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial
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BMC Public Health, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4196-9
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Jenny Lloyd, Siobhan Creanor, Lisa Price, Charles Abraham, Sarah Dean, Colin Green, Melvyn Hillsdon, Virginia Pearson, Rod S. Taylor, Richard Tomlinson, Stuart Logan, Alison Hurst, Emma Ryan, Wendy Daurge, Katrina Wyatt

Abstract

We have developed a healthy lifestyles programme (HeLP) for primary school aged children (9-10 years), currently being evaluated in a definitive cluster randomised controlled trial. This paper descriptively presents the baseline characteristics of trial children (BMI, waist circumference, % body fat, diet and physical activity) by gender, cluster level socio-economic status, school size and time of recruitment into the trial. Schools were recruited from across the South West of England and allocated 1:1 to either intervention (HeLP) or control (usual practice) stratified by the proportion of children eligible for free school meals (FSM, <19%, ≥19%) and school size (one Year 5 class, >1 Year 5 class). The primary outcome is change in body mass index standard deviation score (BMI sds) at 24 months post-randomisation. Secondary outcomes are BMI sds at 18 months, waist circumference and percentage body fat sds at 18 and 24 months, proportion of children classified as underweight, overweight and obese at 18 and 24 months, physical activity (for a sub-sample) and food intake at 18 months. At baseline 11.4% and 13.6% of children were categorised as overweight or obese respectively. A higher percentage of girls than boys (25.3% vs 24.8%) and children from schools in FSM category 2 (28.2% vs 23.2%) were overweight or obese. Children were consuming a mean (range) of 4.15 (0-13) energy dense snacks (EDS) and 3.23 (0-9) healthy snacks (HS) per day with children from schools in FSM category 2 consuming more EDS and negative food markers and less HS and positive food markers. Children spent an average 53.6 min per day (11.9 to 124.8) in MVPA and thirteen hours (779.3 min) per day (11 h to 15 h) doing less than 'light' intensity activity. Less than 5% of children achieved the Departments of Health's recommendation of 60 min of MVPA every day. We have excellent completeness of baseline data for all measures and have achieved compliance to accelerometry not seen before in other large scale studies. Our anthropometric baseline data is representative of local and national data for children this age and reflects the gender and socio-economic variations expected of children this age in relation to physical activity and weight status. ISRCTN15811706 (1/05/2012).

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 13%
Student > Master 25 11%
Researcher 20 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 5%
Other 30 14%
Unknown 84 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 41 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 36 17%
Sports and Recreations 13 6%
Psychology 9 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 3%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 85 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2017.
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#1,989,965
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#2,209
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#40,537
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#39
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