The Effectiveness of the Health Promoting School Intervention Model in Reducing Overweight and Obesity Among School Children in Indonesia: a Mixed-Methods Protocol Study

A nutrition education and physical activity intervention, combining a pilot health promoting school model that includes health education and recreational enhancement with the curriculum of a government-designated healthy school, was designed to reduce childhood overweight and obesity. The programme was implemented over 6 months. This program has been widely conducted in several countries, but there are still many differences from previous studies, especially in terms of strengthening qualitative studies in the first stage, then in the intervention stage using a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial design. Another advantage of this study is the combination of intervention and health promoting school. In Indonesia, there are few intervention studies in reducing overweight and obesity in children, some only focus on descriptive studies such as nutritional knowledge, physical activity measures using questionnaires to determine the relationship or measure BMI.