Science Engagement to Empower Disadvantaged adoleScents (SEEDS Project)

Summary

SEEDS is a multicenter 24-month citizen science (CS) cluster randomized controlled study, with interventions conducted in four European countries acting as pilot sites: 1) Greece, 2) The Netherlands, 3) Spain and 4) The United Kingdom. This project will merge CS and traditional approaches and will target high schools located in deprived neighborhoods.

The methodology, that combines CS and traditional science, could build effective cooperation between science and society to empower adolescents from low-income environments to adopt healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity, increase their interest in science and improve their critical thinking.

Conditions

• Healthy Lifestyle

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention Group

Teenagers with leadership skills from intervention schools (called ambassadors) and stakeholders will participate in focus groups to gain insights on the barriers and facilitators for healthy lifestyles of teenagers, and how science could help address these. Building on the information of the focus groups, ambassadors, stakeholders and other peers will participate in a collaborative competition event where the SEEDS intervention(s) will be designed. The intervention(s) will be implemented at intervention high-schools during 6 months. Outcomes in health behaviours and science literacy will be assessed by validated questionnaires at the start and end of the project.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Exeter

  collaborator OTHER

• Harokopio University

  collaborator OTHER

• City of Rotterdam

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• European Citizen Science Association

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Erasmus Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Institut Investigacio Sanitaria Pere Virgili

  collaborator OTHER

• University Rovira i Virgili

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rosa Solà, Prof. · University Rovira i Virgili

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

13 Years

Max Age

15 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-09-01

Primary Completion

2022-06-30

Completion

2022-07-31

Countries

• Greece
• Netherlands
• Spain
• United Kingdom

Study Locations