General outline

Over the last decades obesity has become a great problem in Europe and prevention and treatment of obese children and adolescents not only benefits the affected individuals but also the health care systems in the member states.

Besides creating awareness a preventive and therapeutic approach has to take the addictive aspect of overeating into account, as well as comorbidity with ADHD. Ways of interdisciplinary cooperation have to be found to create synergies in the treatment and prevention.

Objectives and results

The general objective of the InForm project is to develop integrated overweight / obesity prevention and treatment strategies for children and adolescents. Implemented beyond project time in the participating countries, these will contribute to combating the childhood obesity epidemic in Europe. 

Thus there are two main outcomes: a measurable change in awareness about the important of a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of obesity of the children, adolescents and their families targeted with the social marketing campaign as well as a sustainable network of competence centres in the area of childhood obesity prevention and treatment in the participating countries. This network will implement the manual and the training course beyond project time.