NCT02157402

EYTO (European Youth Tackling Obesity): A Randomized Controlled Trial in Catalonia (Spain)

A Youth Led Social Marketing Campaign to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles. EYTO (European Youth Tackling Obesity): A Randomized Controlled Trial in Catalonia (Spain)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Rovira i Virgili · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Our hypothesis is that healthy lifestyles improvement by an intervention designed according 8 social marketing Benchmark criteria, can reduce overweight or obesity implemented by adolescents on their colleges. The general aim of EYTO program is to improve health and well-being among adolescents who live in low socioeconomically communities, through an intervention study designed by selected adolescents with the inclusion of social marketing Benchmark criteria.

Detailed description

5 adolescent coordinators (of intervention high-schools) will be trained by experts in social marketing and health promotion. This 5 selected adolescent as coordinators who will be in charge of the design of an 8 social marketing criteria intervention to implement their peers´ lifestyles. The program has over two academic years. The participants will be followed for the duration of 2 academic years, an expected of up to 16 months.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Life Style

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social marketing activities and pop-up events to promote healthy lifestyles

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2014-06-06
• Last updated: 2021-10-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain