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Successful linking to school career data was possible for 4129 adolescents who were then retrospectively subdivided into a Lekker Fit! group, mixed group and regular school group based on their primary school career.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Interventions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Lekker Fit! intervention is a multicomponent primary school-based intervention for the prevention of overweight. It focuses on a healthy diet and healthy lifestyle rather than focusing directly on the reduction of overweight. The intervention targets individual behaviour of children as well as their obesogenic environment and parental engagement in shaping their children\u2019s behaviour.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Primary and secondary outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Aged 13\/14 years old, physical fitness was measured with an incremental ergometer test. The actual highest achieved work rate was divided by the expected highest achieved work rate (age- and sex-related Dutch population-based reference data), and converted into z-scores. PA was determined by the number of days with at least 1\u2009hour of PA, obtained by a self-reported questionnaire. Propensity score matching was performed to correct for non-random selection bias. Linear regression analyses were performed to estimate intervention effects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Children from the Lekker Fit! group had significantly lower fitness z-scores (\u22120.18 (95% CI \u22120.29 to \u20130.06), n=1826) compared with children from the matched regular school group. No Lekker Fit! intervention effect was found on PA (\u22120.12 (95% CI \u22120.36 to 0.12), n=1258).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>No evidence was found for long-term favourable effects of a school-based multicomponent intervention on physical fitness and PA. 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