"Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls - Brazil": Randomized control trial with adolescent girls attending public schools of the city of São Paulo

• Grant number: 16/21144-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: June 20, 2017
• End date: June 19, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nutrition - Nutritional Analysis of Population
• Principal Investigator: Sonia Tucunduva Philippi
• Grantee: Ana Carolina Barco Leme
• Supervisor: Tom Baranowski
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Baylor College of Medicine, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/20852-7 - "Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls - Brazil": Randomized control trial with adolescent girls attending public schools of the city of São Paulo, BP.PD

Abstract

Background: The negative consequences of weight gain and the high likelihood to pediatric obesity track into adulthood, highlight the importance to target youth "at risk" for obesity. Objective: Evaluate the six-month intervention effect; investigate the weight behaviors that can mediate effects on weight and methodological and theoretical issues of the intervention. Methods: The "Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls - Brazil" is a 6-month randomized control trial based on the Social Cognitive Theory, aiming on the obesity prevention. The study was conducted in 10 public schools of São Paulo, Brazil. The outcomes were BMI, BMI Z score, physical activity level, food consumption and screen behaviors. The analyses will follow the intention-to-treat principle, and baseline group differences will be assessed using t-student and chi-squared tests. Linear mixed model and coefficient product test will be used to assess the intervention effects and mediator effects of behavior change. The methodological and theoretical issues will be conducted using thematic analysis technique. For all the statistical tests will be set an alpha level of significance of p<0.05. The intervention data was collected in 2015 and will be analyzed in 2016.

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)

LEME, ANA CAROLINA BARCO; THOMPSON, DEBBE; DUNKER, KARIN LOUISE LENZ; NICKLAS, THERESA; PHILIPPI, SONIA TUCUNDUVA; LOPEZ, TABBETHA; VEZINA-IM, LYDI-ANNE; BARANOWSKI, TOM. Obesity and eating disorders in integrative prevention programmes for adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ OPEN, v. 8, n. 4, APR 2018. (16/21144-9)

SONIA TUCUNDUVA PHILIPPI; ANA CAROLINA BARCO LEME. Provocações em relação ao peso corporal: a insatisfação com o próprio corpo afeta o comportamento de controle de peso de adolescentes brasileiras de comunidades de baixa renda?. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, v. 34, n. 6, 2018-06-21. (16/21144-9, 15/20852-7)

LEME, ANA CAROLINA BARCO; PHILIPPI, SONIA TUCUNDUVA; THOMPSON, DEBBE; NICKLAS, THERESA; BARANOWSKI, TOM. ``Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls-Brazil{''}: an obesity prevention program with added focus on eating disorders. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, v. 24, n. 1, p. 107-119, FEB 2019. (16/21144-9, 15/20852-7)

LEME, ANA CAROLINA BARCO; PHILIPPI, SONIA TUCUNDUVA; THOMPSON, DEBBE; NICKLAS, THERESA; BARANOWSKI, TOM. "Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls-Brazil": an obesity prevention program with added focus on eating disorders. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, v. 24, n. 1, p. 13-pg., 2019-02-01. (15/20852-7, 16/21144-9)