Overview of the Chinese primary school children physical activity and dietary behaviour changes intervention programme
| Key components | Activities | Target audience |
| Component 1: To improve childhood obesity-related knowledge and behaviour among children and their main carers | (A) Interactive education activities for carers | Main carers (parents and grandparents) |
| (B) Interactive educational activities in children | Children | |
| (C) Family-wide healthy behavioural challenges and child self-monitoring | Children and their main carers | |
| (D) Quizzes for main cares and children | ||
| Component 2: To improve the nutritional quality of school lunch provision | (A) Introduce school lunch improvement goals that were set jointly by researchers and school lunch providers and then tested by school lunch providers (including catering workers) | School lunch providers and catering staff |
| (B) Supportive school lunch evaluation and feedback in relation to the improvement goals | ||
| Component 3: To increase children’s physical activity level outside school | (A) Fun and active family games learnt and tried in school | Children and their parents |
| (B) Assign home work (a family-wide healthy behavioural challenge)—practice the games learnt | ||
| Component 4: To increase children’s physical activity level in school | (A) Situation analysis in relation to current implementation of the Chinese national standard of having 1-hour physical activity on campus every school day | Children and school staff |
| (B) Setting monthly goals (measurable and achievable) and action plans to meet, maintain or exceed the national standard and continuous evaluation and feedback |