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Peer leaders and adolescents participating in a multicomponent school based nutrition intervention had dietary improvements

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.6.2.44

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    Birnbaum AS, Lytle LA, Story M, et al. Are differences in exposure to a multicomponent school-based intervention associated with varying dietary outcomes in adolescents?Health Educ Behav2002 ;29:427–43OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    QUESTION: In adolescents, are varying levels of exposure to a multicomponent, school based nutrition intervention associated with varying dietary outcomes?

    Design

    Randomised {allocation concealed}*, unblinded, controlled trial with follow up of 1 school year.

    Setting

    16 schools in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota, USA.

    Participants

    Students {mean age 12.8 y}* in middle or junior high school. Schools were eligible if they had ≥20% of students approved for the free and reduced price lunch programme and ≥30 students in each of the seventh and eighth grades. 3878 students completed the baseline survey in fall 1998, and 3503 (90%) completed the year end survey in spring 1999 (51% boys, 69% white).

    Intervention

    The 16 schools were pair matched; 8 schools (1748 students) were allocated to the intervention, and 8 schools (1755 students) were allocated to a control condition. Students …

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    Footnotes

    • ↵* Information provided by author.

    • For correspondence: Dr A S Birnbaum, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. birnbaum{at}epi.umn.edu

    • Source of funding: National Cancer Institute.