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PRESTO—Prevention Study of Obesity: A project to prevent obesity during childhood and adolescence
Author(s) -
Dämon Sabine,
Dietrich Sabine,
Widhalm Kurt
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb02131.x
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , obesity , childhood obesity , intervention (counseling) , physical activity , family medicine , gerontology , physical therapy , pediatrics , medical education , nursing
The PRESTO project has been launched as a school‐oriented pilot project. The aims were to influence nutrition, physical activity and health. The intervention was performed by a multiprofessional team and covered 11 nutrition and health‐related sessions with 1 h per week in each class. The initial poor knowledge was improved significantly to the control group with better results in grammar schools compared to comprehensive schools. BMI was not improved in overweight children. However, this project could serve as a successful model in Austria.