1. ENERGY EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth Johannes Brug EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research Amsterdam, the Netherlands

3. Aim of ENERGY The development of a new theory- and evidence-based multi-component intervention scheme for youth… ….ready to be implemented across Europe promoting the adoption or continuation of health behaviors that contribute to a healthy energy balance. …school-based and family-involved.

4. Why ENERGY? systematic evidence-based step wise development cross European analysis in existing data sets and in newly collected data careful secondary analyses -> mediators and moderators focus on school AND family environments focus on the potential of financial/economical intervention approaches multidisciplinary approach by a multidisciplinary team development of a multi-component intervention strategy applicable to different European settings and different target groups involvement of SMEs and international health promotion organisations

5. Youth - 10-12 year olds - transition childhood – adolescence = critical period - second target group: parents = major influence on life style behaviors, - school-based interventions often fail to target/involve home environments

6. Model of Planned Promotion of Population Health

7. 1.Reviews 2.Secondary analyses 3.Focus groups 4.Cross sectional survey

8. Energy balance related behaviors

9. Environmental Research framework for weight Gain prevention (EnRG) Kremers et al. IJBNPA, 2006

10. Model of Planned Promotion of Population Health 1.Intervention mapping 2.Formative evaluation

11. Conceptual model of ENERGY

12. WPs and WP leaders WP 1: Overall coordination of the project, progress and financial management; Johannes Brug, EMGO+/VUmc, Nl WP 2: Identification of the most important energy balance-related behaviours; Carolyn Summerbell, John Snow University, Durham, UK WP 3: Identification of personal and environmental determinants of energy balance related behaviours; Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, University of Ghent, Belgium WP 4: Identifying determinants of parental involvement ; Lea Maes, University of Ghent, Belgium WP 5: Identifying moderators and mediators of successful interventions; Mai Chin A Paw, VUmc, Amsterdam, Nl WP 6: Exploring financial strategies to promote energy balance among children at school; Jorgen Jensen, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark WP 7: Cross-European research on obesogenic family and school Environments; Yannis Manios, Harokopio University in Athens, Greece WP 8: Developing an evidence-based intervention scheme to promote energy balance among 10-12 year olds; Knut-Inge Klepp, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway WP 9: Evaluating the evidence-based intervention promoting healthy energy balance among 10-12 year olds; Elling Bere, University of Agder, Norway WP 10: Preparing an implementation and dissemination plan; Tim Lobstein, IASO- IOTF, London, United Kingdom WP 11: Data-management; Johnd Snow University & VU University Medical Center

13. Read more? Evidence-based development of school- based and family-involved prevention of overweight across Europe: The ENERGY-project's design and conceptual framework. Brug et al. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:276 Van Stralen et al. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:65