Preventing childhood obesity in the UK, with a focus on South Asian children

我们计划制定一系列预防儿童肥胖的活动。这些活动将在伯明翰小学5至7岁的儿童中进行测试。在儿童和成人中，肥胖是一个日益严重的全球性问题。它对健康的影响包括心脏病、癌症和糖尿病的风险增加。在英国，南亚人（SA）的风险特别高，但这一群体并未包括在之前的研究中。我们知道，以儿童为目标是防止这种上升趋势的好方法。以前的研究取得了有限的成功，部分原因是对规划过程的关注较少。我们的研究采用了新的规划方法，关注环境因素，包括SA背景的儿童。我们将首先从学校和周围社区的人们那里收集信息，并将其与科学文献中的信息结合起来。通过这个过程，我们的目标是定义目标社区认为有效、重要和可接受的活动。然后，我们将在四所小学的孩子中测试这个包。我们将评估这些活动的效果，并通过将这些孩子与其他类似学校没有这些活动的孩子进行比较来完善这些活动。

We plan to develop a package of activities to prevent obesity among children. The activities will be tested among children aged 5 to 7 in primary schools in Birmingham. Obesity is a growing global problem among children and adults. Its health consequences include increased risk of heart disease, cancers and diabetes. In the UK, people of South Asian (SA) origin are at particularly high risk, but this group have not been included in previous research. We know that targeting children is a good way of preventing the rising trend. Previous research has had limited success, partly because less attention was paid to the planning process. Our study takes a new approach to planning, focusing on environmental factors and including children of SA background.We will first gather information from people in schools and surrounding communities, and combine this with information from the scientific literature. Through this process we aim to define activities that the target community perceives to be effective, important and acceptable. We will then test the package among children from four primary schools. We will assess the effects and refine the activities by comparing these children with children from other similar schools who did not have these activities.