Your questions

What is PEACH?

PEACH stands for Personal and Environmental Associations with Children’s Health.  The aim of the project is to understand why some young people are more active than others and where young people go to be active.

What do the accelerometer (the red box) and the GPS actually do?

Have a look at the ‘Your kit’ page on this website to find out all you need to know about your monitors and to find out some amazing facts about how they work.

I am a part of the PEACH Project, what will I be asked to do?

We will ask you to do 4 things:

• We will give you two small activity monitors to wear around your waist for one week.
• We will ask you to fill in two computerised questionnaire (one old and one new)
• We will measure your height, weight and waist circumference
• We will ask you to give us six saliva samples, three on a weekday and three on a weekend day

What happens to the information I tell you?

Everything you tell us in the questionnaire or that we find from the activity monitors and saliva samples will be kept at Bristol University.   Your teachers, parents and friends will not see any of this information.

Do I have to take part in the study?

No.  It is up to you if you want to take part in the study or not.

I am taking part in the project at the moment and the light on my red belt has stopped flashing, is it broken?

No this is supposed to happen; it means that the monitor is recording correctly.

What happens if I lose or break one of the monitors during the study?

While we hope that no monitors are lost or broken during the study, we do understand that accidents can happen.  If a monitor is lost we will ask you to keep looking for it and to let your teacher or parents know so that they can help you look as well.   If a monitor is broken please return it to us so that we can try and mend it.  We expect you to take good care of both monitors lent to you during the project but we will not charge you for lost or damaged equipment.

Any other questions?

If you have any other questions about the study, please contact us.