ePlatform for Promoting Health in Schools

There are few public health and educational policies specifically aimed at promoting physical activity, healthy dietary habits, and reducing sedentary behaviour among adolescents from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. ePro-Schools will co-design, pilot and evaluate an evidence-based program, delivered via a modular eHealth platform, to promote physical activity and healthy eating, and reduce time in sedentary behaviours. A profound co-creation process involving adolescents, school staff, and policymakers-alongside the adaptation of previous interventions by consortium members-will support the program's development. The ePro-Schools platform will contain modules for adolescents and their parents, teachers and school administration. Although the platform will be implemented through schools, it will include content to be implemented outside the school setting. The intervention program will be evaluated through a randomised controlled trial conducted in six secondary schools in Central Catalonia that aims to include 1000 adolescents. Schools have been randomised (1:1) into an intervention and a waiting-list control group. The evaluation of the program includes effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and process evaluation. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and eating habits are the primary effectiveness outcomes of the trial. Secondary outcomes include fitness, water consumption, quality of life, depressive symptoms, social isolation and sleep quality. Using implementation science methodology, ePro-Schools will co-design transferable evidence-based practices and methodologies and guidance for scaling up the platform with policymakers and stakeholders, as well as informing specialists, policymakers and the general public.

NCT Number	NCT06792461
Lead Sponsor	Fundació Sant Joan de Déu Collaborators: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Consorcio Centro Investigación Biomédica en RED (CIBER)-SAM, Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina, Utrecht University, Klaipėda University, Technical University of Munich, Riga Stradins University, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France, Wuerzburg University Hospital
Conditions	Health Promotion, Health Education, Physical Activity, Nutrition, Behaviour Change
Enrollment	1,000 participants
Start Date	2025-09-08
Primary Completion	2026-07 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-03 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-04-29