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UICC World Cancer Congress 2006

Bridging the Gap: Transforming Knowledge into Action

July 8-12, 2006, Washington, DC, USA

Tuesday, 11 July 2006 - 12:00 PM
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Extending the School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) to Address Child and Adolescent Obesity: Transforming the Relationship Between Research, Policy and Practice

Scott Leatherdale, PhD, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, 620 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 2L7, Canada, Steve Manske, EdD, Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation, University of Waterloo, Lyle S. Hallman Institute, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 5G9, Canada, Suzy Wong, MSc, Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave west, Waterloo, ON N2L 5G9, Canada, and Roy Cameron, PhD, University of Waterloo, Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (NCIC/CCS), 200 University Ave west, Waterloo, ON N2L 5G9, Canada.

Objective:The School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) is a series of modular health behaviour surveys which can be used to address the issue of childhood and adolescent obesity in the school context.

Methods: SHAPES consists of three elements: (a) low-cost, machine readable questionnaires that can be administered to all grade 6 to 12 students in a school, (b) school administrator questionnaires to assess school policy and programs related to health behaviour, and (c) computer-generated feedback reports for the school / community.

Results:SHAPES is expanding to become an innovative tool for youth obesity surveillance, and the targeting, planning and evaluating of school-based interventions designed to prevent/reduce youth obesity. SHAPES is being structured to not only provide school-level obesity monitoring data, but also to assist school-based teams to plan and evaluate their obesity prevention efforts, assist policy-makers and practitioners establish the relationship between specific school settings and student physical activity and eating behaviour, and assist researchers to understand how student characteristics and the characteristics of the school a student attends are related to their physical activity and eating behaviour patterns.



Web Page: www.shapes.uwaterloo.ca/

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