Trial reportJournal of developmental origins of health and disease2018
LifeLab Southampton: a programme to engage adolescents with DOHaD concepts as a tool for increasing health literacy in teenagers -a pilot cluster-randomized control trial.
Trial report in Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions with health education to reduce body mass index in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- A cluster-randomised controlled trial of the LifeLab education intervention to improve health literacy in adolescents.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Using an experience based design approach to advance health literacy in Ireland.Dialogues in health · 2026Article
- Feasibility of LifeLab Dublin: a co-designed health literacy intervention for socioeconomic disadvantaged schools.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Development of two short FFQ to assess diet quality in UK pre-school and primary school-aged children based on National Diet and Nutrition Survey data.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Adolescent understanding of concepts related to the developmental origins of health and disease: a Pacific perspective.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2025Article
- Feasibility Testing of a Health Literacy Intervention With Adolescents and Young Adults in South Africa: The LifeLab Soweto Programme.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Understanding DOHaD Concepts Among New Zealand Adolescents: A Qualitative Exploration of Knowledge, Intervention Windows, and Information Accessibility.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Impact of a Primary School Health Promotion Programme on Adolescents' Health Behaviour and Well-Being.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Applying the framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions to increase family communication about hereditary cancer.PEC innovation · 2023Article
- LifeLab: Co-Design of an Interactive Health Literacy Intervention for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents'.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Adolescence as a Critical Lifecourse Period to Break the Transgenerational Cycle of NCDs-A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Using Co-Design to Develop a Health Literacy Intervention with Socially Disadvantaged Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A School Intervention's Impact on Adolescents' Health-Related Knowledge and Behavior.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Health Literacy in Schools? A Systematic Review of Health-Related Interventions Aimed at Disadvantaged Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Addressing embodied inequities in health: how do we enable improvement in women's diet in pregnancy?Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Knowledge about the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is independently associated with variation in diet quality during pregnancy.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- Does Better Health-Related Knowledge Predict Favorable Health Behavior in Adolescents?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Why have Non-communicable Diseases been Left Behind?Asian bioethics review · 2020Article
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Abstract
Adolescence is a critical time point in the lifecourse. LifeLab is an educational intervention engaging adolescents in understanding Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concepts and the impact of the early life environment on future health, benefitting both their long-term health and that of the next generation. We aimed to assess whether engaging adolescents with DOHaD concepts improves scientific literacy and whether engagement alone improves health behaviours.Six schools were randomized, three to intervention and three to control. Outcome measures were changed in knowledge, and intended and actual behaviour in relation to diet and lifestyle. A total of 333 students completed baseline and follow-up questionnaires. At 12 months, intervention students showed greater understanding of DOHaD concepts. No sustained changes in behaviours were identified.Adolescents' engagement with DOHaD concepts can be improved and maintained over 12 months. Such engagement does not itself translate into behaviour change. The intervention has consequently been revised to include additional components beyond engagement alone.
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