Impact of an nutritional intervention to prevent weight gain at worksite

• Grant number: 07/02540-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2007
• End date: August 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Patricia Constante Jaime
• Grantee: Patricia Constante Jaime
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa (PRO-PESQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The worksite has been attracting more interest as a propitious place to prevention of weight gain. Amongst the behavior strategies, weight self-monitoring is associated with better control of weight in the short and long term. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of an intervention based on weight self-monitoring at worksite, on weight, on energy consumption and on physical activity practice in employees of companies in the city of Sao Paulo. Subjects and Methods: Randomized controlled intervention trial involving 1.100 workers, divided equally in 5 companies for intervention group and 5 for control group. The intervention will last six months and will be based on the stimulation of weighing and weight self-monitoring. Each month and during six months, we will be supplied banners with educative messages of healthful habits of feeding and physical activity. In the data collection, questionnaires will be used to access personal information of the employee, on its alimentary habits and usual physical activity practice, beyond anthropometrics measures of weight and height. After six months, the same employees who had participated of the first data collection will be invited again for the second one. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DANIELA SILVA CANELLA; DANIEL HENRIQUE BANDONI; PATRICIA CONSTANTE JAIME. Densidade energetica da dieta de trabalhadores de Sao Paulo e fatores sociodemograficos associados*. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, v. 16, n. 2, p. 257-265, 2013-06-00. (07/02540-1)

JAIME, PATRICIA CONSTANTE; BANDONI, DANIEL HENRIQUE; DA FONSECA LEITAO DURAN, ANA CLARA; FISBERG, REGINA MARA. Índice de qualidade da dieta ajustado pela necessidade energética em adultos. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, v. 26, n. 11, p. 2121-2128, NOV 2010. (07/02540-1)

JAIME, PATRICIA CONSTANTE; BANDONI, DANIEL HENRIQUE; SARNO, FLAVIO. Impact of an education intervention using email for the prevention of weight gain among adult workers. PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION, v. 17, n. 7, p. 1620-1627, JUL 2014. (07/02540-1)

CRISTINA MOURA BOMBEM, KELLY; SILVA CANELLA, DANIELA; HENRIQUE BANDONI, DANIEL; CONSTANTE JAIME, PATRICIA. Impact of an educational intervention using e-mail on diet quality. NUTRITION & FOOD SCIENCE, v. 44, n. 5, p. 12-pg., 2014-01-01. (07/02540-1)