Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Metabolic diseases and nutrition, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain.
BMJ Open. 2023 May 8;13(5):e070169. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070169.
Improving healthy lifestyles of adolescents is challenging. Citizen Science is a way to engage them in the design and delivery of interventions, and may also increase their interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The Science Engagement to Empower aDolescentS (SEEDS) project aims to use an equity-lens, and engage and empower boys and girls from deprived areas by designing and cocreating interventions to promote healthy lifestyles, and to seed interest in STEM.
SEEDS is a cluster randomised controlled trial in four countries (Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK). Each country will recruit six to eight high schools from lower socioeconomic neighbourhoods. Adolescents aged 13-15 years are the target population. High schools will be randomised into intervention or control group. Each country will select 15 adolescents from intervention schools called ambassadors, who will be involved throughout the project.In each country, focus groups with ambassadors and stakeholders will focus on physical activity, snacking behaviour and STEM. The input from focus groups will be used to shape Makeathon events, cocreation events where adolescents and stakeholders will develop the interventions. The resultant intervention will be implemented in the intervention schools during 6 months. In total, we aim to recruit 720 adolescents who will complete questionnaires related to healthy lifestyles and STEM outcomes at baseline (November 2021) and after the 6 months (June 2022).
The four countries obtained approval from their corresponding Ethics Committees (Greece: Bioethics Committee of Harokopio University; the Netherlands: The Medical Research Ethics Committee of the Erasmus Medical Center; Spain: The Drug Research Ethics Committee of the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute; UK: Sport and Health Sciences Ethics Committee of the University of Exeter). Informed consent will be collected from adolescents and their parents in line with General Data Protection Regulation legislation. The findings will be disseminated by conference presentations, publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals and during (local) stakeholders and public events. Lessons learnt and the main results will also be used to provide policy recommendations.
NCT05002049.
改善青少年的健康生活方式具有挑战性。公民科学是一种让他们参与设计和实施干预措施的方式，也可能增加他们对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的兴趣。“通过科学参与赋予青少年权力（SEEDS）”项目旨在采用公平视角，通过设计和共同创造促进健康生活方式的干预措施，并激发对 STEM 的兴趣，让贫困地区的男孩和女孩参与并赋予他们权力。
SEEDS 是一项在四个国家（希腊、荷兰、西班牙和英国）进行的集群随机对照试验。每个国家将从较低社会经济社区招募六到八所高中。13-15 岁的青少年是目标人群。高中将被随机分为干预组或对照组。每个国家将从干预学校中选择 15 名称为大使的青少年，他们将全程参与项目。在每个国家，大使和利益相关者的焦点小组将重点关注体育活动、零食行为和 STEM。焦点小组的意见将用于塑造“创作马拉松”活动，这是一个青少年和利益相关者共同开发干预措施的共创活动。由此产生的干预措施将在干预学校实施六个月。我们总共计划招募 720 名青少年，他们将在基线（2021 年 11 月）和 6 个月后（2022 年 6 月）完成与健康生活方式和 STEM 结果相关的问卷。
四个国家都从各自的伦理委员会获得了批准（希腊：哈罗科皮奥大学生物伦理委员会；荷兰：伊拉斯谟医学中心医学伦理委员会；西班牙：佩雷·维吉尔健康研究所药物研究伦理委员会；英国：埃克塞特大学体育与健康科学伦理委员会）。根据《通用数据保护条例》的规定，将从青少年及其家长处收集知情同意书。研究结果将通过会议演讲、在科学同行评议期刊上发表以及在（当地）利益相关者和公众活动中进行传播。所学到的经验教训和主要结果也将用于提供政策建议。
NCT05002049。
