Health impact of the community intervention programme "Health education in adolescence"

Objective: To measure the impact of the community health programme "Education for health in adoles-cence" carried out in the Parquesol neighborhood, Valladolid (Spain), during the years 2015-2019.Method: Community-based quasi-experimental pre-and post-test analytical intervention trial with con-trol group. A total of 407 adolescent surveys were collected. The CHIP-AE test validated for Spain was used. Pre-and post-test results were analyzed and compared with the control group.Results: Improvements were found in the female intervention group compared to the control group in the variables resilience (3.68 vs. 3.41; p < 0.01), health and safety at home (4.30 vs. 4.00; p < 0.01), physical activities (3.16 vs. 2.60; p < 0.01) and self-esteem (3.17 vs. 2.79; p < 0.05). Conclusions: The community intervention carried out improves the health profile of adolescents. The baseline perception of health presents differences by gender, with higher scores in males. Post-intervention improvement is substantial in females in resilience, physical activities and health and safety at home. In addition, the worsening due to the passage of time described in previous studies is corrected in the variables self-esteem, satisfaction and well-being.(c) 2023 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).