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The YEAH! project’s ambitious objectives are made possible through the coordinated efforts of a top-tier consortium with complementary expertise. Our research focuses on three main areas to ensure the success of our interventions :
Led by experts in epidemiology, health psychology, and information technology, this area focuses on designing innovative, evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of children and adolescents.
Specialists in public health and sports psychology lead the application of these interventions in real-world settings, ensuring practical and impactful delivery across diverse communities.
Behavioral medicine and public health experts conduct rigorous evaluations to measure the interventions' effectiveness, equity, and sustainability.
Additionally, the consortium benefits from the contributions of specialists in social marketing, economics, geography, psychiatry, and physiology, as well as the active involvement of a youth health promotion association. This multidisciplinary collaboration ensures that every intervention is not only scientifically sound but also relevant and impactful in diverse contexts.
The YEAH! project has achieved several intermediate results that contribute to the development and implementation of its interventions for children and adolescents.
Children, adolescents, and their parents or carers are educated and empowered to implement prevention strategies tailored to individual needs. By leveraging personalized approaches and digital tools, they gain the ability to manage and improve physical activity, nutrition, mental health, and overall well-being, all while respecting privacy.
Children and adolescents, including those from vulnerable contexts, adopt healthy lifestyles at home, in school, and within their communities. Through improved health literacy, digital solutions, and interaction with healthcare providers, they monitor health risks, receive support, and provide valuable feedback to carers and doctors.
Enhanced co-creation, training, and health literacy enable children, adolescents, parents, and carers to access and utilize widely available, person-centered solutions. These interventions are designed to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving digital society while addressing risks such as digital addiction.
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Since starting in January 2025, the YEAH! project has completed key preparatory steps that lay the groundwork for the future development and implementation of its interventions for children and adolescents.
identifying the main factors that influence health behaviors and overall health in children and adolescents, which serve as optimal targets for the intervention.
establishing a comprehensive co-creation protocol that defines every aspect of the process. This protocol is dynamically adapted by co-creation laboratories in seven countries to address local needs and ensure the intervention is relevant.
delivering and evaluating the co-creation process in seven participating countries to ensure it is locally adapted and effective.
creating pedagogical materials to support training sessions and activities for group-based games, as well as a digital solution that aligns with project objectives and offers personalized behavior change support for children and adolescents.
selecting and validating tools for the intervention, tailored for children and adolescents, and available in six languages: French, Dutch, Danish, Romanian, Greek, and English.
obtaining all necessary regulatory and ethics approvals across implementation sites for the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).
adapting participant-friendly measurement tools to evaluate health behaviors, indices, and mechanisms of action; delivering standardized training for behavior change coaches; conducting recruitment campaigns targeting schools; and implementing the RCT with at least 2,688 pupils across seven sites.
assessing the intervention’s effectiveness, mechanisms of action, equity, external validity, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability.
assessing the intervention’s effectiveness, mechanisms of action, equity, external validity, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability.
This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon Europe under grant agreement No 101155977
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