Table 2 Summary of the EPHE methods and framework

▪ Seven European community-based programmes, following the EPODE or similar methodology, participated in the EPHE project.

▪ The programmes recruited (at baseline) families with children aged between 6 to 9 years old from different socio-economic backgrounds, through schools.

▪ The programmes developed interventions for the whole population, each addressing the relevant inequality gaps identified at baseline [31].

▪ Intervention target: to improve energy balance-related behaviours and their family-environmental determinants of low socio-economic status families with children 6-9 years old

▪ Evaluation of the interventions’ effects after the intervention period and sustainability assessment a year after [33].