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Retracted: A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention To Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (“We Are Cool”—Som la Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study

Aceves-Martins, Magaly, Llauradó, Elisabet, Tarro, Lucia, Moriña, David, Papell-Garcia, Ignasi, Prades-Tena, Jordi, Kettner-Høeberg, Helle, Puiggròs, Francesc +4 more·2017·Childhood Obesity
DOI 10.1089/chi.2016.0216
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Childhood Obesity is officially retracting the article entitled, ‘‘A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (‘‘We Are Cool’’—Som la Pera Study): A Parallel Cluster Randomized Controlled Study,’’ by Aceves-Martins M, Llauradó E, Tarro L, et al. [Child Obes 2017;13:300–313; doi: 10.1089/chi.2016.0216], due to discovered inaccuracies in the p values, which lead to the determination that the results were irreproducible. Almost three years after the publication of the original article by Aceves-Martins M, et al. the Editor of Childhood Obesity received and published a Commentary from Golzarri-Aorryo et al.,1 (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; USA) along with a response2 from the authors of the original paper. The commentary by Golzarri-Aorryo et al., raised concerns about an ‘‘unexplained deviation from the prespecified analytic plan,’’ and went on to say that ‘‘the authors do not specify whether (and, if so, how) clustering and nesting were taken into account in any of these analyses.’’ Aceves-Martins et al., responded, in part, saying ‘‘…other alternative approaches might have been used, like multilevel analysis…but since the [intracluster correlation coefficient] was negligible, and given the scope of this study, such approaches were not considered.’’ Voluminous correspondence took place between both parties through the Editor of Childhood Obesity which ultimately led to Aceves-Martins et al., to conclude, ‘‘We are concerned that the outcome for change from baseline to end could be coded incorrectly for how it is interpreted. And we are therefore unable to perform the appropriate re-analysis on the data adjusted for cluster when we cannot first match the sample sizes (n)…’’ At the conclusion of this protracted process, the Aceves-Martins, et al., team agreed with the Editor of Childhood Obesity that the article should be officially retracted. It is important to note that the Editor of Childhood Obesity has invited the Aceves-Martin team to submit their updated work on this study to be submitted to the journal as a new manuscript for peer review. The two published commentaries will remain in the literature but will contain links to the official retraction notice. Childhood Obesity is committed to upholding the scientific record and the community it serves. References 1. Golzarri-Arroyo L, Oakes JM, Brown AW, Allison DB. Incorrect analyses of cluster-randomized trials that do not take clustering and nesting into account likely lead to p-values that are too small. Child Obes 2020;16:65–66. 2. Aceves-Martins M, Llauradó E, Tarro L, et al. Response to: Comment about statistical analysis of a cluster-randomized trial about clustering and nesting. Child Obes 2020;16:67–69.

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Authors
Aceves-Martins, M., Llauradó, E., Tarro, L., Moriña, D., Papell-Garcia, I., Prades-Tena, J., Kettner-Høeberg, H., Puiggròs, F., Arola, L., Davies, A., Giralt, M., & Solà, R.
Affiliations
  • Health Education and Promotion, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
  • Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES)
  • Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge (ES)
  • EURECAT Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya (ES)
  • Departament d'Estudis de Comunicació, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
  • Eurecat, Technology Centre of Catalonia, Reus, Spain.
  • National Children's Bureau (GB)
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (ES)
Corresponding author
Llauradó, Elisabet
ORCID
Venue
Childhood Obesity
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2017-08-01
Volume
13
Issue
4
Pages
300-313
ISSN
  • 2153-2168 (ISSN-L)
  • 2153-2176
DOI
10.1089/chi.2016.0216
OpenAlex
W2610321123
Cited by
29
References
43
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2
FWCI
4.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Status
Retracted
Update notices
retraction (2020-09-15)
Open access
closed
Licence
www.liebertpub.com/nv/resources-tools/text-and-data-mining-policy/121/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Childhood Obesity (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • European Commission
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III
  • European Regional Development Fund
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
Keywords
retraction, peer-led intervention, social marketing, adolescents, healthy lifestyle, school-based intervention, Spanish adolescents, clustering, multilevel analysis, intra-cluster correlation, research reproducibility, peer review, research integrity, childhood obesity prevention, physical activity, nutrition
MeSH terms
Healthy Lifestyle, Adolescent, Diet, Female, Fruit, Humans, Life Style, Male, Peer Group, Poverty, Schools, Spain, Vegetables, Health Behavior, Exercise, Cluster Analysis, Vulnerable Populations, Social Marketing, Sedentary Behavior

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