Authors
Femke Van Nassau, Hidde P Van Der Ploeg, Frank Abrahamsen, Eivind Andersen, Annie S Anderson, Judith E Bosmans, Christopher Bunn, Matthew Chalmers, Ciaran Clissmann, Jason MR Gill, Cindy M Gray, Kate Hunt, Judith GM Jelsma, Jennifer G La Guardia, Pierre N Lemyre, David W Loudon, Lisa Macaulay, Douglas J Maxwell, Alex McConnachie, Anne Martin, Nikos Mourselas, Nanette Mutrie, Ria Nijhuis-van Der Sanden, Kylie O’brien, Hugo V Pereira, Matthew Philpott, Glyn C Roberts, John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Øystein Røynesdal, Naveed Sattar, Marlene N Silva, Marit Sorensen, Pedro J Teixeira, Shaun Treweek, Theo Van Achterberg, Irene Van De Glind, Willem Van Mechelen, Sally Wyke
Publication date
2016/12
Journal
BMC public health
Volume
16
Pages
1-15
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Lifestyle interventions targeting physical activity, sedentary time and dietary behaviours have the potential to initiate and support behavioural change and result in public health gain. Although men have often been reluctant to engage in such lifestyle programs, many are at high risk of several chronic conditions. We have developed an evidence and theory-based, gender sensitised, health and lifestyle program (European Fans in Training (EuroFIT)), which is designed to attract men through the loyalty they feel to the football club they support. This paper describes the study protocol to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the EuroFIT program in supporting men to improve their level of physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour over 12 months.
Methods
The EuroFIT study is a pragmatic, two-arm, randomised controlled trial …
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