Worldwide the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased persistently in the last decades. Therefore, prevention of overweight and obesity in children should be an international public health priority. Evidence for the effectiveness of prevention programs for childhood obesity is gradually growing. Schools are an ideal setting for intervention programmes, as they reach many children with whom there is intensive contact. However, the outcomes reported by school-based intervention studies on prevention of childhood obesity, vary greatly, reducing the comparability between studies. Hence, there is need for a set of key outcomes that should be measured in future studies on school-based interventions aimed at prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. This project will establish a core outcome set for school-based interventions aimed at prevention of childhood (6-12 years) overweight and obesity by 1) conducting a scoping review into preventive school-based interventions for childhood obesity to identify different reported outcomes, 2) Taking children’s opinions into account by conducting focus group interviews in different countries around the world and 3) by conducting a Delphi study among relevant stakeholders to establish consensus on a core outcome set.
Contributors- Dr. T.M. Altenburg, Senior researcher Child Health and Care Research, initiator and supervisor within the project, Dpt. of Public and Occupational Health, section Child Health and Care Research, Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute, VU University Medical Center
- Prof. Dr. M.J.M. Chinapaw, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Van der Boechorststraat 7, NL-1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dr. D.M. Harrington, University of Strathclyde, Psychological Sciences and Health, Glasgow, UK, University of Leicester, Leicester, Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom
- L.W. de Vries, , Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Van der Boechorststraat 7, NL-1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dr. I.J. Grooten, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam UMC, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dr. J. van t Hooft, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam UMC, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dr. A.W. van Deutekom, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Prof. Dr. T. Roseboom, Professor of Early Development and Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Prof. Dr. Jo Salmon, Co-Director, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.
Disease Category: Child health, Public health
Disease Name: Obesity , Weight management
Age Range: 6 - 12
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Prevention
- Clinical experts
- Conference participants
- Families
- Governmental agencies
- Policy makers
- Researchers
- Consumers (caregivers)
- Consumers (patients)
- Individuals with a known interest
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- COS for practice
- Consensus meeting
- Delphi process
- Survey
- Systematic review
- Focus group(s)
We will create a Core Outcome Set (COS) for school-based interventions aimed at prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. Firstly, we will conduct a scoping review into preventive school-based interventions for childhood obesity to identify different reported outcomes. The scoping review is registered in Open Science Frameworks (registration DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/AQTYU).
Secondly, we will take children’s opinions into account via focus group interviews in at least three different countries around the world. Third, we will conduct a three-step Delphi procedure to establish consensus on the previously produced list of outcomes for the evaluation of school-based intervention studies on prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. International stakeholders (researchers, policy makers, teachers and school leaders, health professionals and parents) will be approached to establish a selection of outcomes using an online Delphi survey and to obtain consensus on outcomes during a consensus meeting.