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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