Table 1.
Intervention Related Group (IRG) identification | 24 high schools * 3 strategies = 72 IRG: 36 IRG-A, 36 IRG-C |
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Intervention periods identification |
2 intervention periods = intervention implemented during the grade 10 and 11 school years |
Identification and categorisation of the
programme actors |
Supervisors: PRALIMAP monitors |
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Anchor personnel: school professionals (administration staff, teachers, catering professionals,
school nurses, …) |
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Targets: high school students |
Indicator development |
Non-programme-driven activities indicators: |
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* Developed for the 72 IRG |
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* Concerned respectively the educational nutritional, screening and environmental activities
performed independently of the PRALIMAP trial |
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Programme-driven activities indicators: |
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* Developed for the 36 IRG-A |
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* Concerned the PRALIMAP activities planned by the frame of reference: |
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- 12 IRG-Education: indicators investigated the delivery of lectures and collective works on nutrition
and the participation in PRALIMAP meetings |
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-12 IRG-Screening, indicators investigated the delivery of weight and height data and of the proposition
to participate to adapted overweight care management and the participation of students in group
educational sessions |
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- 12 IRG-Environmental, indicators investigated the delivery of high school environment improvements
(adapted food and physical activity availability) and participation in PRALIMAP parties |
Data collection |
Data collected before the programme implementation: |
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* High schools nutritional environment (ex: water drinking fountain, proposed physical activities …) :
nutritional surveys participated in by school staff |
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* Nutritional behaviours : adolescent self-administered questionnaires and anthropometric measures |
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Data collected during implementation: |
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* Activities delivery data: activity reports, pupil satisfaction surveys (care management, PRALIMAP
meeting…) |
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* Appreciation of PRALIMAP trial : self administered questionnaire |
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* Evolution of the offer of school catering and physical activity free equipment and the nutritional
environment close by the high school: nutritional surveys participated in by school staff |
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Data collectedat the end of the programme: |
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* Activities delivery, school staff and teenagers’ participation and favouring and limiting factors : |
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- focus group of staff responsible for interventional strategies (high school professionals, head teachers) |
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- individual semi-structured interview of the PRALIMAP monitors |
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- focus group of health professionals intervening with overweight and obese adolescents in high school
screening |
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- nutritional survey of high school professionals and students |
Data analysis and evaluation of
indicators |
Indicator report sheets are elaborated for every IRG including: |
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* Quantitative indicators expressed in the form of mean or percentage (eg : pupils' activity
participation rate) |
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* Qualitative (literal) indicators (eg : ranges of food proposed in the lunches, delivery or not of activity) |
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The number of indicator report sheets varied from 3 to 6 according to the high school
assigned strategies (Table 3) : |
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*IRG–Education : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities + 1 indicator report sheet
of programme-driven activities |
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*IRG–Education control : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities |
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*IRG– Screening : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities + 1 indicator report sheet
of programme-driven activities |
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*IRG–Screening control : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities |
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*IRG–Environment : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities + 1 indicator report sheet
of programme-driven activities |
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*IRG–Environment control : 1 indicator report sheet of non-programme-driven activities |
Score assignment |
Number of experts:18 (3 groups of 6) |
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Type and specialty of experts: researchers, field professionals or decision-makers, specialists in diet,
physical activity and\or evaluation, knowing or not the PRALIMAP trial, practicing or not in Lorraine
Region |
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IRG assigned between the experts: the IRG were fairly and anonymously distributed among the
experts |
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Individual scoring aid: IT (Excel®) |
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Scoring : ranging from 0 to 20 for every period, domain and characteristic in each IRG Threshold defined for the standard deviation and/or the range: if a standard deviation was higher than 2.5 or a range higher than 6 was observed, the experts debated and proposed a new notation; discrepant scores were then preserved. |
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Taking into account between-group variability: A fictitious high school was created and scored by
the 3 groups |
Intervention dose calculation |
Application of intervention dose formula to assigned scores: Dose = DQt x (mean (DQl, PQt,
PQl)/20) |
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A group effect has been evidenced thanks to the fictitious high school and required score adjustment
varying from 0.8 to 2.8 points. |
Eventually 216 doses (108 per period) were calculated (Table 3). |