Description
The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a school-based, weight-screening intervention to assess overweight and obesity levels in children within primary school. The programme includes feedback to parents as weight report letters that comprise information on child’s body measurements (weight, height, and BMI percentile), supporting materials (practical advice for healthy life style changes), and a list of resources. The project aims at analysing the effect of this information feedback on variety of health related outcomes. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the Millennium Cohort Study, we evaluate adiposity-related outcomes, behavioural outcomes related to energy balance (sedentary behaviour, physical activity, fruit intake, etc.) and adverse effects (psychological outcomes) of the intervention.
Researchers
Yuliya Kazakova, PhD student, ISER, University of Essex
Dr Birgitta Rabe, Senior Research Fellow, ISER, University of Essex