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Comment on “Intervention Effects of a School-Based Health Promotion Programme on Obesity Related Behavioural Outcomes”

Year: 2015

Type: letter

Abstract: permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The paper, “Intervention Effects of a School-Based Health Promotion Programme on Obesity Related Behavioural Outcomes ” by Kobel et al. [1], reports secondary out-comes from a cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT): the Baden-Württemberg primary school study (DRKS-ID: DRKS00000494) [2]. Importantly, the design of this cRCT properly incorporated crucial aspects of such trials, such as the lack of independence of subjects within clusters and the nesting of clusters within treatment conditions [2]. Addi-tionally, plausible analytical models (e.g., linear mixed effects models or GEE models) were planned [2]. Unfortunately, the statistical analysis ultimately reported in [1] is inconsistent with the predefined analysis plan and does not take the impact of clustering and nesting into account. Ignoring the

Source: Journal of Obesity

DOI: 10.1155/2015/708181

Authors: Peng Li, Andrew W. Brown, J. Michael Oakes, David B. Allison

Institutions: University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,100