ePlatform for Promoting Health in Schools

Summary

There are few public health and educational policies specifically aimed at promoting physical activity, healthy dietary habits, and reducing sedentary behaviour among adolescents from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. ePro-Schools will co-design, pilot and evaluate an evidence-based program, delivered via a modular eHealth platform, to promote physical activity and healthy eating, and reduce time in sedentary behaviours. A profound co-creation process involving adolescents, school staff, and policymakers-alongside the adaptation of previous interventions by consortium members-will support the program's development. The ePro-Schools platform will contain modules for adolescents and their parents, teachers and school administration. Although the platform will be implemented through schools, it will include content to be implemented outside the school setting. The intervention program will be evaluated through a randomised controlled trial conducted in six secondary schools in Central Catalonia that aims to include 1000 adolescents. Schools have been randomised (1:1) into an intervention and a waiting-list control group.

The evaluation of the program includes effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and process evaluation. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and eating habits are the primary effectiveness outcomes of the trial. Secondary outcomes include fitness, water consumption, quality of life, depressive symptoms, social isolation and sleep quality. Using implementation science methodology, ePro-Schools will co-design transferable evidence-based practices and methodologies and guidance for scaling up the platform with policymakers and stakeholders, as well as informing specialists, policymakers and the general public.

Conditions

• Health Promotion
• Health Education
• Physical Activity
• Nutrition
• Behaviour Change

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity and nutritional behavioural intervention

The ePro-Schools intervention includes two digital platforms designed to promote physical activity and healthy nutrition among adolescents: 1. The Intervention Platform, which provides interactive content for both students and PE teachers. 2. The Information Platform, which offers educational resources for students, teachers, and families. The intervention content-currently being refined through a co-creation process-will feature engaging modules focused on physical activity and healthy eating. Adolescents will have access to more than 15 interactive modules, while PE teachers will benefit from 8 targeted pedagogical modules aimed at enhancing their lessons and encouraging greater student participation in physical activity. Control group will have access to the information platform

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

  collaborator OTHER

• Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu

  collaborator OTHER

• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  collaborator OTHER

• Consorcio Centro Investigación Biomédica en RED (CIBER)-SAM

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

  collaborator OTHER

• Utrecht University

  collaborator OTHER

• Klaipėda University

  collaborator OTHER

• Technical University of Munich

  collaborator OTHER

• Riga Stradins University

  collaborator OTHER

• Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Wuerzburg University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Fundació Sant Joan de Déu

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rodrigo Antunes Lima, PhD · Fundació Sant Joan de Déu

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

11 Years

Max Age

16 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-09-08

Primary Completion

2026-07-31

Completion

2027-03-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations