Prevention Research Center, College of Health.uman Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 402 Marion Place, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Health Educ Res. 2012 Apr;27(2):343-58. doi: 10.1093/her/cyr095. Epub 2011 Oct 10.
Effective school-based obesity prevention programs are needed to prevent and reduce the growing obesity risk among youth. Utilizing the evidence-rich areas of violence and substance use prevention, translation science may provide an efficient means for developing curricula across multiple health behaviors. This paper introduces Pathways to Health, a school-based obesity prevention program that was developed by translating from evidence-based violence and drug use prevention programs, Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies and the Midwestern Prevention Project STAR (STAR). We illustrate how a hypothesized underlying behavior change mechanism in two domains of risk behavior, violence and substance use, can be applied to obesity prevention. A 4-step translational process is provided and may be relevant for use in developing other curricula to address multiple health risk behaviors. Practical application and decision points are also provided.
需要有效的基于学校的肥胖预防计划来预防和减少青少年日益增长的肥胖风险。利用暴力和药物使用预防方面证据丰富的领域,翻译科学可能为跨多种健康行为制定课程提供一种有效的手段。本文介绍了基于学校的肥胖预防计划“Pathways to Health”,该计划是通过翻译基于证据的暴力和药物使用预防计划“促进替代思维策略”和中西部预防项目“STAR”(STAR)而开发的。我们说明了如何将风险行为的两个领域(暴力和药物使用)中假设的潜在行为改变机制应用于肥胖预防。提供了一个 4 步的转化过程,对于开发其他针对多种健康风险行为的课程可能具有相关性。还提供了实际应用和决策要点。