Engaging teenagers in improving their health behaviours and increasing their interest in science (Evaluation of LifeLab Southampton): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

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• 作者：Kathryn Woods-Townsend ; Lisa Bagust ; Mary Barker ; Andri Christodoulou…
• 关键词：science education ; health literacy ; science literacy ; nutrition literacy ; cluster randomised trial ; adolescent health ; health behaviours ; LifeLab
• 刊名：Trials
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：613 KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1745-6215

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Background Lifestyle and health behaviours are strongly linked to non-communicable disease risk, but modifying them is challenging. There is an increasing recognition that adolescence is an important time for lifestyle and health behaviours to become embedded. Improving these behaviours in adolescents is important not only for their own health but also for that of their future children. LifeLab Southampton has been developed as a purpose-built classroom and laboratory in University Hospital Southampton. Secondary school students visit LifeLab to learn how childhood, adolescent and parental nutrition influences health, understand the impact of their lifestyle on their cardiovascular and metabolic health, and to inspire them with the excitement of research and future career possibilities in science. The LifeLab visit is part of a programme of work linked to the English National Curriculum. Pilot work has indicated that attitudes towards health can be changed by such LifeLab sessions.