Improving and upscaling primary prevention of cancer by addressing childhood obesity through implementation research – the PREVENT approach
Why it matters
PREVENT improves upscaling of primary interventions for weight control management during childhood and adolescence to reduce cancer risks in adulthood. This relies on current evidence that relates excess body weight with increased cancer risk.
Towards this end, PREVENT applies a series of implementation research:
– it identifies barriers to current interventions and policies preventing them from upscaling to different geographical, socio-economic, and cultural settings.
– It introduces new multi-actor (e.g., students, family, educators, policymakers) and context-aware (tailored to the specific implementation places, i.e. class, canteen, sports fields, labs, outside school) interventions along with new user engagement strategies to face the current upscaling bottlenecks
The PREVENT new policies are adapted, piloted, and scaled up within the schools’ communities of three European countries facing different epidemiological settings on childhood obesity, geographic, socio-economic and cultural attributes. The pilots are designed to be holistic end-to-end ecosystems, including users, medical professionals, policymakers, public
authorities, and civil communities. They focus on the whole school communities of Greece, Sweden, and Spain-Catalonia, PREVENT outreach to more than 3.3 million students, required for guideline provisioning, large-scale implementation, multiparameter assessment, and scaling-up. Co-creation, active behavioral change, self-evaluation through user empowerment, motivational interviewing, social innovation, digital-assistive engagement, health apps, and multi-domain assessment are implementation research aspects of PREVENT to advance user acceptability and compatibility with existing policies, and thus improve sustainability and upscaling.
What CPE does
CPE contributes to the identification of barriers and new intervention policies. CPE brings its experience in the design of the Living Labs and, in the implementation set-up, assesses the new policies.
Ethnikos Organismos Dimosias Ygeias Greece
Ministry Of Health Greece
Ministry Of Education And Religious Affairs Greece
Karolinska Institutet Sweden
Livsmedelsverket Sweden
Internationella Engelska Skolan I Sverige Ab Sweden
Fundacio Institucio Dels Centres De Recerca De Caspain
Departament De Salut – Generalitat De Catalunyaspain
European Health Management Association Belgium
The European Association For The Study Of Obesity Ireland
Cancer Patients Europe Belgium
Istituto Di Sociologia Internazionale Di Gorizia Is Italy
Time.Lex Belgium
Arbisense Ab Sweden
Wellics Software Technologies And Research P.C. Greece
Fundacion Instituto Tecnologico De Castilla Y Le Spain
Risa Sicherheitsanalysen Gmbh Germany
Ainigma Technologies Belgium
Institute Of Communication And Computer Systemgreece
Type of Action
HORIZON-RIA Action Grant
Funding
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Project duration
48 months (January 2023 – December 2026)
Lead Coordinator or Main Proposer
Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon Greece