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From: A national school-based health lifestyles interventions among Chinese children and adolescents against obesity: rationale, design and methodology of a randomized controlled trial in China

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Shows the flow of participants through the trial in each center. In each center, about 10000 eligible primary and secondary (primary: secondary = 1:1) students were recruited, then were randomly allocated to either intervention or control group. Parental and student consents obtained. Baseline measurements were taken by assessors at September 2013. The multi-components school-based and family-involved scheme was conducted within the intervention group for 9 month. Post baseline measurements were taken by assessors at June 2014, four types of outcomes including anthropometric, behavioral, blood chemical and physical fitness were measured at baseline and post baseline to assess the effectiveness of the intervention program.

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