Green List Prevention: Evidence register

Term since 2016

 

Project management

Prof. Dr. Ulla Walter

 

Research associates

Katharina Bremer
Ricarda Brender
Dr. Dr. Vitali Gorenoi

Student assistant

Seyma-Nur Toklu

 

Description of the project

In Germany, there is a wealth of programs aimed at improving the psychosocial health of children and adolescents. The freely accessible, web-based evidence register "Green List Prevention" provides actors in prevention and health promotion with an overview of evidence-based measures for the psychosocial health of children and adolescents. The register was set up in 2011 on the initiative of the Lower Saxony Prevention Council (LPR) as part of the local prevention system "Communities That Care" and has been managed and maintained in cooperation with Hannover Medical School since 2016.

The "Green List of Prevention" enables a targeted search and needs-oriented, tailor-made selection of prevention programs available throughout Germany that have been tested for effectiveness and recommendable prevention approaches for children/young people, families, kindergartens/schools and neighborhoods/communities. The measures are categorized into three levels of evidence according to their evaluation: (1) effectiveness theoretically well founded, (2) effectiveness probable and (3) effectiveness proven. The classification is based on assessment criteria in the areas of concept, implementation and evaluation quality. These are published on the website, as are the admission criteria. Search functions facilitate the precise selection of a measure. The "Green List Prevention" is classified as a "Best Evidence Database" in the memorandum "Evidence-based Prevention and Health Promotion" of the Federal Center for Health Education (2020). There are currently 102 prevention and health promotion measures listed in the register (as of February 2024, see also our video here).

The tasks of the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research, together with the Lower Saxony State Prevention Council, are to carry out program assessments as well as the scientific monitoring and further development of the evidence register.

The project has been funded since 2017. The register is currently being expanded to include evidence-based measures to promote physical activity and a healthy diet in children and adolescents, as well as measures aimed at preventing disease; this project, which will run from 01/2023 to 12/2026, is funded by the German Association of Private Health Insurance Companies (Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherungen e.V.).

The methodological and content-related further development of the evidence register and its practice-oriented application is supported by an advisory board. The constituent meeting took place on 29.02.2024.

 

"Green List Prevention" advisory board

The advisory board members are:

  • Thomas Altgeld (State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony Bremen)
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
  • Dr. Malte Bödeker (Federal Institute of Public Health)
  • Prof. Dr. Anneke Bühler (Kempten University of Applied Sciences)
  • Dr. Gregor Burkhart (European Society for Prevention Research)
  • Prof. Dr. Kevin Dadaczynski (University of Potsdam)
  • Prof. Dr. Freia De Bock (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
  • Prof. Raimund Geene (Berlin School of Public Health)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Axel Haverich (Hannover Medical School)
  • Thomas Held (AOK Lower Saxony)
  • Dörte Hennemann (German Society for Nutrition Lower Saxony)
  • Dr. Karl Hill (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Christine Joisten (German Sport University Cologne)
  • Dr. Susanne Jordan (Robert Koch Institute)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Kindler (German Youth Institute)
  • Anna Koch (Working Group of the Youth Welfare Offices of Lower Saxony and Bremen)
  • Christine Liermann/ Frederik Tetzlaff (German Forum for Crime Prevention)
  • Dr. Anke Oepping (Federal Center for Nutrition/ National Action Plan IN FORM)
  • Prof. Dr. em. Dr. Bernt-Peter Robra (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
  • Dr. Maike Sauerhering/ Michaela Kruse (Lower Saxony Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development)
  • Prof. Dr. Dagmar Starke (Academy for Public Health)
  • Prof. Dr. Felicitas Thiel (Standing Scientific Commission of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Samuel Tomczyk (University of Greifswald)
  • Maximilian von Heyden (FINDER Academy)
  • Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology; BIPS)
  • Dr. Kai Zentara (Deutscher Landkreistag Nordrhein-Westfalen)

 

Publications

 

Book chapters

Bremer K, Brender R, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2023). Green list prevention: strengthening effective relationship prevention. In: Marks E, Heinzelmann C, Wollinger GR (eds.): Children in the focus of prevention. Selected contributions from the 27th German Prevention Day. Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH 2023. 978.3.96410.026.9 (print edition), 978.3.96410.027.6 (eBook). S. 291-316

Journal articles

Bremer K, Brender R, Tetzlaff F, Walter U, Groeger-Roth F (2024). Finding suitable prevention measures - The Green List guide supports with new search functions. Forum Crime Prevention, 3/2024, 3-5

Bremer K, Brender R, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2024). Green List Prevention - A contribution to evidence-based prevention. Public Health Forum 2024; 32(4): 386-389. doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2024-0111

Brender R, Bremer K, Kula A, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2024). Evidence Register Green List Prevention - Analysis of the listed effectiveness-tested programs. Public Health 2024; 86: 474-482. DOI 10.1055/a-2308-7256

Tetzlaff F, Bremer K, Brender R, Groeger-Roth F (2024). The green list guide: Digital offers newly bundled. Forum Crime Prevention, 2/2024, 18-20

Abstracts

Gorenoi V, Bremer K, Brender R, Walter U (2024). Evidence Register "Green List Prevention": Modification of the evaluation criteria based on internationally relevant categorization concepts. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 272. doi: 10.3205/24gmds685

Vonstein C, Bußkamp A, Aluttis C, Held T, Mosch A, Zeeb H, Brandes M, Sell L, Gill S, Brender R, Bremer K, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2024). Practice databases for prevention and health promotion in comparison - concepts and further development of four databases. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 631. doi: 10.3205/24gmds938

Bremer K, Brender R, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2023). Green list prevention: identification of risk and protective factors to expand the database to include nutrition and exercise measures. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 780 - 781. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770500

Walter U, Brender R, Bremer K, Groeger-Roth F (2023). Green List Prevention - An Evidence Registry for Prevention and Health Promotion in Germany. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 33 Supplement 2, 2023. pp. 67-68

Bremer K, Brender R, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2022). Green List Prevention - A database of evidence-based prevention programs. Public Health 2022; 84: 864 DOI 10.1055/s-0042-1753992

Brender R, Bremer K, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2022). Database Green List Prevention - What's inside? Systematic characterization of the programs in the Green List Prevention. Public Health 2022; 84: 749 DOI 10.1055/s-0042-1753676

Bremer K, Groeger-Roth F, Kula A (2021) Good, Better, Best?! Operationalizing Rating Criteria for Programme Registries- Updating the "Green List Prevention" in Germany. Congress contribution in: European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR). 12th EUSPR conference and members' meeting. sine loco [online event], 29.09.-01.10.2021. EUSPR.org: Program Page 49.

 

Groeger-Roth F, Kula A (2017), Evidence-based program registries - the example of the "Green List Prevention" in Germany - Congress contribution. EUSPR_2017_Booklet Final. Page 56 euspr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EUSPR_2017_Booklet_FINAL.pdf