title: EFFECTS OF AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM (HHP) ON THE PROMOTION OF HEALTHY HABITS IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  it is vital to monitor and promote healthy lifestyle habits in early adolescence, as it is a time of changes when future lifestyle habits are formed.
  
  
  METHODS
  a study was conducted to find out the effects of a Healthy Habits Program (HHP) in children between the ages of 10 and 12 years (N = 158). The study included an intervention group (IG) (n = 90), which participated in the HHP for 8 months, and a control group (CG) (n = 100). In order to assess healthy habits in these children we used the Inventory of Healthy Habits (IHH), the reliability of which was previously evaluated (N = 134).
  
  
  RESULTS
  the IHH obtained good reliability, Interclass Correlation Coefficient (range .506 - 884; p < .001) and Spearman Correlation Coefficient (range r = 529 - 884; p < .001). As regards the HHP, there were no differences in eating habits initially (p = .564), but by the end of the study (p = .001) the IG showed better habits. As for the other healthy habits indicators, the CG had better habits initially (p = .047), but the score of the IG improved and there were no differences between the groups at the end of the study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  it was shown that the IHH is a suitable and reliable questionnaire for studying habits in adolescents. The HHP brought about changes in the IG, which achieved better scores for eating habits and sum of health habits.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Católica de Valencia "San Vicente Mártir", Torrente, Spain.. vicente.nebot@ucv.es.
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nebot Paradells
authors.affiliation: Universidad Católica de Valencia "San Vicente Mártir", Torrente, Spain.. ana.pablos@ucv.es.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pablos Monzó
authors.affiliation: Universidad Católica de Valencia "San Vicente Mártir", Torrente, Spain.. laura.elvira@ucv.es.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Elvira Macagno
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.. jose.f.guzman@uv.es.
authors.forename: José Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Guzmán Luján
authors.affiliation: Universidad Católica de Valencia "San Vicente Mártir", Torrente, Spain.. carlos.pablos@ucv.es.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pablos Abella
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D015444:Exercise; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires