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Table 1 Primary and secondary outcomes of interests and proposed instrument/measure

From: Healthy together Victoria and childhood obesity—a methodology for measuring changes in childhood obesity in response to a community-based, whole of system cluster randomized control trial

Item

Outcome(s) of interest

Proposed Instrument/measure

Anthropometry

• Change in BMI-z score

• Change in overweight and obesity prevalence

• Change in abdominal obesity prevalence

Height, weight & waist circumference

Physical activity and Sedentary behavior

• Change in minutes per day (mins.d−1) spent in daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time

• Change in the proportion of participants meeting Australia’s physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines for children (5–12 years) [33] and young people (13–17 years) [34]

• Change in levels of perceived psychosocial influences on physical activity participation

Modified questionnaire containing items from the Core Indicators and Measures of Youth Health [30] and SHAPES [28] surveys.

Duration, intensity and perceived psychosocial influences

Diet

• Change in typical/usual serves of fruit and vegetable daily

• Change in typical/usual serves of non-core foods

• Change in typical/usual serves of sugar-sweetened beverages

• Change in the proportion of participants meeting the Australian Dietary guidelines for fruit and vegetable intakes [38]

• Change in usual caffeinated energy drink intake

Modified version of the Simple Dietary Questionnaire (Parletta N, Frensham L, Peters J , O’Dea K, Itsiopoulos C. Validation of a Simple Dietary Questionnaire with adolescents in an Australian population, unpublished). [56]

Type, frequency

Moods and Feelings

• Change in depressive symptom score

Grade 8–10: Short Moods and Feelings Questionnaire [47]

Emotional wellbeing

Quality of Life

• Change in the global score

• Change in psychosocial health summary score

• Change in physical health summary score

Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) [40]

Environments

• Change in school policy environment

• Change in school physical environment

• Change in school economic environment

• Change in school socio-cultural environment

Primary Schools: Be Active Eat Well Environment questionnaire

Secondary schools: It’s Your Move Environment Questionnaire