Table 1

RDTP for SPRAT (5 hours)

SessionContents
1 (1 hour)Introduction to SPRAT

  1. background (PADOK, SPRAT)

  2. aim

  3. flow diagram (figure 1)

  4. participants: middle school students and their parents/guardians

  5. assessments: students (height and weight, FFQW82, LQ, SPQ) and parents/guardians (PPS)

  6. intervention: SPRAT intervention scheme (figure 2) using ‘Smart Life’ and the parent manual.

2 (2 hours)How to use the textbook ‘Smart Life’ and the parent manual

  1. Management of each CL (six CLs in total).

  2. How to conduct baseline assessments: students (height and weight, FFQW82, LQ, SPQ) and parents/guardians (PPS).

  3. How to conduct survey for parent/guardian: PPS will be delivered to parents/guardians by their child, and the completed PPS must be returned to the classroom teacher the next school day.

  4. How to present the ‘Smart Life’.

  5. Homework.

3 (2 hours)Role play

  1. opening session

  2. CL1

  3. final session

  • CL, classroom lesson; FFQW82, Food Frequency Questionnaire with 82 food items; LQ, Lifestyle Questionnaire; PADOK, Programme for adolescent of lifestyle education in Kumamoto; PPS, parent-participation self-check; RDTP, registered dietitian training programme; SPQ, Subjective Psychosomatic Symptoms Questionnaire; SPRAT,  School-based lifestyle education involving parents for reducing subjective psychosomatic symptoms in Japanese adolescents; SPS, subjective psychosomatic symptoms.