Objective The prevalence of overweight amongst European children and adolescents has risen at an alarming rate in the past decades, with major repercussions for their health in the short and long term. Existing prevention programmes to combat the epidemic either highlight a public health approach (employing incentive schemes such as taxing of foods) or an individual-educational approach to encourage young people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Until now, both approaches have met with limited success. The aim of the TEMPEST project is to investigate how both approaches may complement each other in order to develop more effective preventive interventions. Public health approaches to prevent overweight are important as they are easy-to-implement and can be employed independently from active participation of the target group. However, they may be powerless in an ‘obesogenic’ environment that is characterized by huge amounts of food and inactivity temptations. The TEMPEST project introduces the novel concept of self-regulatory competence (SRC; the ability to inhibit unwanted responses to temptations) for dealing with such temptations as the key factor in prevention of overweight. The main hypothesis states that increasing SRC allows youth to take better advantage of public health efforts that draw on (non)financial incentive schemes, and will be examined in nine European countries which vary in their public health policies and programmes. The project has four major objectives: 1) Develop a youth-specific SRC Scale for dealing with weight-related temptations that is culturally valid across Europe; 2) Determine the impact of existing incentive schemes and other socio-economic and socio-cultural factors on SRC and weight-related behaviours; 3) Examine the influence of new, experimental incentive schemes on SRC and weight-related behaviours; and 4) Determine the impact of temptations on SRC and weight-related behaviours in social contexts that differ in their appreciation of SRC. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health Keywords adolescents children eating behaviour incentive schemes overweight self-regulation Programme(s) FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health Topic(s) HEALTH-2007-3.3-1 - Promoting healthy behaviour in children and adolescents Call for proposal FP7-HEALTH-2007-B See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Address Heidelberglaan 8 3584 CS Utrecht Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Denise De Ridder (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 686 236,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 330 124,00 Address Oude markt 13 3000 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Marion Wolpers (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window AARHUS UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 224 272,00 Address Nordre ringgade 1 8000 Aarhus c See on map Region Danmark Midtjylland Østjylland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Karen Brunsø (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ Germany EU contribution € 258 600,00 Address Universitatsstrasse 10 78464 Konstanz See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Konstanz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Roland Mayer (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SWPS UNIWERSYTET HUMANISTYCZNOSPOLECZNY Poland EU contribution € 78 184,00 Address Ul. chodakowska 19/31 03 815 Warszawa See on map Region Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Aleksandra Luszczynska (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDADE TECNICA DE LISBOA - UTL Portugal EU contribution € 199 608,00 Address Alameda de st antonio dos capuchos 1 1169 047 Lisboa See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Margarida Gaspar De Matos (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI Romania EU contribution € 122 976,00 Address Mihail kogalniceanu 1 400084 Cluj napoca See on map Region Macroregiunea Unu Nord-Vest Cluj Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Adriana Baban (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health United Kingdom EU contribution € 216 590,00 Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kent Lee (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS Finland EU contribution € 287 528,00 Address Mannerheimintie 166 00271 Helsinki See on map Region Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jaakko Penttinen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
