A School‐Based Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity: Study Design and Baseline Findings From a Cluster‐Randomized Trial
Yeray Nóvoa-Medina, Sara del Cristo Leon, Marta Barreiro-Bautista, Verónica Batista-Dávila, Himar Fabelo, Svetlana Pavlovic, Yaiza García-Delgado, Juan Eugenio Jiménez, Sara López-López, Gran Canarian Diabetes and Obesity Research Group, Ana María Wägner, Luis Peña-Quintana · 2026
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Yeray Nóvoa-Medina and colleagues described in 2026 the design and baseline results of the POI trial, a school-based obesity prevention program in the Canary Islands. About forty percent of six-to-nine-year-olds there carry excess weight. Schools in Gran Canaria were randomized as clusters, enrolling 557 children aged six to ten. The program mixes nutrition teaching, activity promotion, and family engagement, delivered largely by teachers.
Baseline measurements showed steep social gradients: overweight and obesity hit about 49 percent in public schools, against about 33 percent in partly subsidized and 28 percent in private schools. Blood tests in a subset found twenty-one children with raised fasting glucose and twenty-four with high cholesterol. The authors present the starting picture as a map of inequality the intervention must now try to move.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yeray Nóvoa-Medina, Sara del Cristo Leon, Marta Barreiro-Bautista, Verónica Batista-Dávila, Himar Fabelo, Svetlana Pavlovic, Yaiza García-Delgado, Juan Eugenio Jiménez, Sara López-López, Gran Canarian Diabetes and Obesity Research Group, Ana María Wägner, Luis Peña-Quintana |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |