Ruhann Botha, Danyca S Breedt, Dylan Barnard, Ian Couper
Lessons from innovation in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: student perspectives on distributed training
Rural and remote health
obesity among children highly prevalent lead risk factors chronic disease adulthood key organizations called schools play larger role increasing childrens physical activity nutrition adopting overall culture health study examined impact socioecological theory driven schoolwide nutrition physical activity intervention 5th graders central adiposity obesity level 20152016 midwest region us four treatment two control schools including 628 377 treatment 5th grade children participated eightmonth intervention children treatment schools participated comprehensive healthy school transformation program consisting six components waisttoheight ratio whtr body mass index bmi calculated used measure obesity ancova revealed significant difference whtr among treatment control groups time two t2 fmi1614814 443 p 035 r2 064 r2treament 001 significant differences based age sex race additionally ancova bmi revealed marginally significant lower bmi among treatment comparison group students fmi1 614 3575 p 059 r2 001 mdiff 023 95ci upper boundary 003 healthy school intervention led significant differences obesity levels regardless age sex race across 8month program 5th grade children treatment nontreatment schools supports ability schoolwide programs significantly positively impact student health chronic disease prevention