Vimeiro, Hotel Golf-Mar14 de Dezembro 2007
Planning and Implementation of theEuropean Childhood Obesity Surveillance
Initiative in Portugal
Ana Rito; Pedro Moreira; João Breda
National Platform Against Obesity
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Portuguese Platform Against Obesity
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•Body weight
•Body height
• Waist circunference
•Hip circunference
Antropometric measurements
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• Mandatory combined with optional record forms
• School environment Questionnaire (M. Education)
School & family form
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Considering the protocol, which of the activities have already been done and when have they been done?
Those activities that have not been done yet, they are scheduled for when?
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• January/February: Training Workshop - WHO
• March/May = field work
•July = first report
Time schedule
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Schools (1st grade)
TOTAL = 114490
526 (12,99)16.07%DREC18401
192 (4,74)4.29%DREALG4917
155 (3,83)4.55%DREA5210
1558 (38,49)36.53%DREL41826
1616 (39,93)38.55% DREN 44136
Which age groups are we going to enrol: 6 or 7 or 2001 cohort!!!!
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Informed consent
How are you going to obtain informed consent from the parents?
We are going to obtain informed consent from parents (1st meeting with the observatory centres- Public Health departments with the supervising of 2 Universities (Porto-Lisbon))
We will ask the Regional Team to work with school management & “director-turma” to ask permission (written form) to parents…..
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Teachers &…….
How are you going to approach the schools and possibly involve teachers of the sampled classes?
(1st meeting with the regional observatory centres)
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Items to include &…….
Which of the items of the voluntary school record form are you considering to include, if any?
ALL of them. Coincident with ongoing research
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Family record – items to include &…….
Which of the items of the voluntary family's record form are you considering to include, if any?
All of them and even we will add some information, maybe on the food frequency questionnaire
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Coordination centres
Examiners are from the regional observatory centres (Public Health Departments)
Which institute is going to be responsible for the overall national coordination?
Faculty of Food & Nutrition – Oporto University
Atlantic University
Who is providing funding for the implementation of the Surveillance initiative?
General Health Directorate = Owner of the project
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• Training Workshop: WHO January 2008 (training the trainees)
• Working team – by Region (5 regions) – Observatory Centres
•Voluntary family doctors and nurses (Primary health Care
Professionals
•Students (nutrition courses)
Training examiners
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Sampling
Class as the sampling unit
We include all the classes (born 2001) in the school
Classes with more than 1 school year
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Agreement with Ministry of Education
List of schools
Regions (5)
Class
Grade (we have some schools with different grades in the sameclass)
Students with 6 y old (total number = 114490; 6492 schools)
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Agreement with Ministry of Education
Sentinel schools approach
We want to have intervention programme in this schools
We want to measure the impact of the program
This willl lead to the need of new sample each new year of study?
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• Childhood Obesity Intervention Program – OI
• “Movimento Energia Positiva” – Galp Energia
Platform Against Obesity
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MOVIMENTO ENERGIA POSITIVA
«MOVIMENTO ENERGIA POSITIVA»
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MOVIMENTO ENERGIA POSITIVA
• Roadshow nas escolas
• Kit Escolar
• Dia do Movimento Energia Positiva
• Brigada Energia Positiva
• Menu “Sugestão positiva do dia”
• Novo Site da Plataforma Contra a Obesidade
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MOVIMENTO ENERGIA POSITIVA
Roadshow Escolas
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MOVIMENTO ENERGIA POSITIVAPlatform Against Obesity Website
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