‘Go for your life’ Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well

A quasi-experimental multi-level intervention demonstration project with comparison group to increase community capacity to promote healthy eating and physical activity, measured by changes in community capacity, environments, health behaviours and anthropometry.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000892213

Acronym

HPC: BAEW

Enrollment

4500

Registered

2009-10-12

Start date

2006-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Go for your life' Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well (HPC: BAEW) is a community-based intervention program aimed at increasing the community’s capacity to promote healthy eating and physical activity and to reduce unhealthy weight gain across the community.

Interventions

Intervention groups: multiple strategies in schools, workplaces and community organisations to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Examples of strategies include school and workplace food policies, community kitchens and gardens, walking groups, parent education programs, social marketing, training of local professionals and promoting active transport. The duration of the trial is approximately 4 years.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Other

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Each project has a primary and secondary target group, with comparison groups selected to match primary targets. Target groups include children 0-12, adolescents 12-18, young people newly arrived to Australia, families, carers, working adults, older adults, seniors and an indigenous community.

Exclusion criteria

None

Outcome results