Prevention of Excessive Weight Gain by Discouraging Students From Drinking Sodas

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1140 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-03-31

Study Completion Date

2005-12-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study was to encourage students to reduce soft drinks intake, substituting it by water, in order to prevent and control overweight prevalence.

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Detailed Description

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During seven months of one school year, a healthy lifestyle education programme was implemented using simple messages encouraging water consumption instead of sugar sweetened carbonated beverages. The messages were previously tested for understanding in two small groups of children of the same age and socio-economic background as the study participants. Also, beliefs and behaviors of children in these focus groups were recorded in order to orient activities and the production of printed materials to be given to participants. Education was delivered via classroom activities; banners were hung promoting water consumption, and water bottles with the logo of the campaign were given to children and schoolteachers.

Conditions

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Overweight Children

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control

The control group received two one-hour general sessions on health issues and printed general advices regarding healthy diets.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Lifestyle modification

Intervention was focused on the reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages by students. During seven months of one school year, a healthy lifestyle education programme was implemented using simple messages encouraging water consumption instead of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. Education was delivered via classroom activities; banners were hung promoting water consumption, and water bottles with the logo of the campaign were given to children and schoolteachers.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Lifestyle modification

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The centre of the campaign was to encourage the exchange of sugar-sweetened beverages for water. Ten one-hour sessions of activities facilitated by four trained research assistants were assigned for each class. The activities required 20-30 min and teachers were encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. Classroom quizzes and games using water v. sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages as the theme, as well as song and drawing competitions, were promoted. In addition, a musician using a tambourine helped each class to collectively develop songs related to drinking water and reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. This musical activity was conducted during three one-hour sessions.

Interventions

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Lifestyle modification

The centre of the campaign was to encourage the exchange of sugar-sweetened beverages for water. Ten one-hour sessions of activities facilitated by four trained research assistants were assigned for each class. The activities required 20-30 min and teachers were encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. Classroom quizzes and games using water v. sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages as the theme, as well as song and drawing competitions, were promoted. In addition, a musician using a tambourine helped each class to collectively develop songs related to drinking water and reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. This musical activity was conducted during three one-hour sessions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL