Promotion of Healthy Eating Habits and Physical Activity Among Children and Their Families.

Summary

Eating habits and physical activity are key determinants of individual health. The family plays a relevant role in educating children about healthy lifestyles. In the Moroccan community, women are the reference for aspects related to family care. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the ALIAFF program on awareness and promotion of healthy eating and the practice of regular physical activity in families with a situation of social vulnerability linked to the socio-educational intervention services of the Osona County Council (CCO).

Children aged 9-12 years, along with their reference adult linked to the CCO's Socio-educational Intervention Services (SIS) with low adherence to the Mediterranean diet and/or low physical activity levels, with an interest to participate in the program who are able to independently reach the municipal centre.

The study involves participating in an initial meeting to co-create and culturally adapt the program. Following this, selected participants will complete the initial data collection with the help of a mediator of Moroccan origin. The intervention group will participate in five nutrition and physical activity sessions of 1.5 hours. After the intervention, both the control and the intervention group will participate in the final evaluation, which will also be repeated after two months to assess the longer-term impact. Upon completion of the evaluation, the control group will also receive the intervention as compensation for their participation.

Conditions

• Families
• Children
• Food Habits
• Physical Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group: Food habits and physical activity program

5 dynamic face-to-face sessions to promote healthy eating and regular physical activity. The 5 sessions are structured based on the pedagogical approach of Seeing, Judging and Acting (Gibson, 1999; Rodríguez-Bailón, et al., 2016). This methodology provides a logical structure to achieve nutritional and physical activity self-analysis. It is applied based on 3 stages: * 1st reflective stage: to raise awareness about the importance of following healthy eating and physical activity habits and identify to what extent families are close to the healthy recommendations in relation to these two habits (first two sessions). * 2nd: more active stage, to acquire strategies and learn to put these recommendations into practice in their day-to-day lives (session 3th and 4th session). * 3th: to plan specific actions to address and transform some aspects of improvement by freely assuming one's own commitment proposals with the aim of modifying the presented reality, if deemed appropriate (last session).

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care Group

They will be evaluated on baseline, final and follow up, and they will recieved basic nutritional and physical activity information.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Social Services Administration

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Cristina V Vaque Crusellas, Doctrate · University of Vic-University Central of Catalonia

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

9 Years

Max Age

12 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-12-23

Primary Completion

2025-01-20

Completion

2025-03-03

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations