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Improving and upscaling primary prevention of cancer by addressing childhood obesity through implementation research - the PREVENT approach

Descrizione del progetto

Ridurre l’obesità infantile per ridurre il rischio di cancro

Le ricerche suggeriscono una correlazione tra obesità e un maggiore rischio di cancro. L’obiettivo principale del progetto PREVENT, finanziato dall’UE, è ridurre il rischio di cancro in età adulta migliorando gli interventi di controllo del peso per i bambini e gli adolescenti. L’iniziativa cerca di identificare gli ostacoli alla scalabilità degli interventi attuali e di introdurre soluzioni personalizzate e adatte ai diversi contesti, coinvolgendo una gamma diversificata di utenti. PREVENT si occuperà dell’obesità infantile nelle scuole di Grecia, Svezia e Spagna-Catalogna. Questi paesi presentano contesti epidemiologici diversi, nonché caratteristiche geografiche, socioeconomiche e culturali differenti. PREVENT svilupperà, testerà e attuerà nuove politiche in linea con le esigenze specifiche di ciascun paese. Questa iniziativa fa parte del cluster della Missione Cancro dell’UE, incentrato su «Prevenzione e diagnosi precoce».

Obiettivo

"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 actions in the following directions. First, it identifies barriers to current interventions and policies preventing them from upscaling to different geographical, socio-economic, and cultural settings. Then, it introduces new multi-actor and context-aware interventions along with new user engagement strategies to face the current upscaling bottlenecks; multi-actor in the sense that they target different types of users (e.g. students, family, educators, policymakers) and context-aware in the sense that PREVENT interventions are tailored to the specific implementation places (class, canteen, sports fields, labs, outside school). 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, that is, PREVENT outreach to more than 3.3 million students, required for guideline provisioning, large-scale implementation, multi-parameter 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. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on ""Prevention and Early Detection""."

Programma(i)

Coordinatore

ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 651 875,00
Indirizzo
6 CHRISTOU LADA STR
10561 Athina
Grecia

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Regione
Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 651 875,00

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