- Title
- A trial of a six-month sugar-sweetened beverage intervention in secondary schools from a socio-economically disadvantaged region in Australia
- Creator
- Ooi, Jia Ying; Wolfenden, Luke; Yoong, Sze Lin; Janssen, Lisa M.; Reilly, Kathryn; Nathan, Nicole; Sutherland, Rachel
- Relation
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Vol. 45, Issue 6, p. 599-607
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13159
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of a school-based intervention in reducing adolescents’ sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption and percentage of energy from SSBs. Secondary outcomes were SSB consumption within school, average daily energy intake, and body mass index z-scores. Methods: Six secondary schools located in New South Wales, Australia were recruited to participate in a six-month pilot randomised controlled trial (1:1). The intervention included components targeting the school nutrition environment, curricula and community. Outcomes were collected via online surveys, observations, anthropometric measurements and project records. Between-group differences were assessed via linear mixed models. Results: At the six-month intervention endpoint (n=862) there were no statistically significant differences between students in intervention or control schools for mean daily intake of SSBs (8.55mL; CI −26.77, 43.87; p=0.63), percentage daily energy from SSBs (0.12% kJ; CI −0.55, 0.80; p=0.72), or for secondary outcomes. Acceptability of the school-based strategies were high, however intervention fidelity varied across schools. Conclusion: While acceptable, improving fidelity of implementation and increasing the duration or intensity of the intervention may be required to reduce SSB intake. Implications for public health: Engaging parents and education stakeholders in the development phase to co-design interventions may prove beneficial in improving intervention fidelity and enhance behavioural outcomes.
- Subject
- adolescent health; nutrition; childhood obesity; schools; behaviour change; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1457587
- Identifier
- uon:45362
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-0200
- Rights
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Language
- eng
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