Follow-up of a healthy lifestyle education program (the EdAl study) : four years after cessation of randomized controlled trial intervention

Declarations Acknowledgments We express our appreciation to the university medical and health science students of the Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Reus, Spain), as well as the staff, parents and children of the primary and high schools of Reus, Cambrils, Salou and Vila-seca for their enthusiastic support in this study. This work was partially supported by grants from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-ISCIII (Spanish Government) cofunded by FEDER funds / European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - a way to build Europe (References: RD12/0036/0056, PI11/02090 and PI16/01254) and from the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (2014SGR756) and RecerCaixa 2015 (2015ACUP00129). Funding This research project has been supported by Fundació Privada Reddis, Ajuntament de Reus, Vila-seca, Salou i Cambrils (Spain); Nutrition and Health Technology Centre-TECNIO CT09–1-0019, Reus (Spain); Diputació de Tarragona (Spain). These funders did not play a role in the Spanish study design, data collection, study management, data analysis, interpretation of the data, writing of the report, or decision to submit the report for publication. Availability of data and materials The technical appendix, statistical code and dataset are available from the corresponding author. Email: lucia.tarro@urv.cat.Peer reviewedPublisher PD