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Introduction: An important impediment to the large-scale adoption of evidence-based school nutrition interventions is the lack of evidence on effective strategies to implement them. This paper describes the protocol for a “Collaborative Network Trial” to support the simultaneous testing of different strategies undertaken by New South Wales Local Health Districts to facilitate the adoption of an effective school-based healthy lunchbox program (‘SWAP IT’). The primary objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of different implementation strategies to increase school adoption of the SWAP across New South Wales Local Health Districts. Methods: Within a Master Protocol framework, a collaborative network trial will be undertaken. Independent randomized controlled trials to test implementation strategies to increase school adoption of SWAP IT within primary schools in 10 different New South Wales Local Health Districts will occur. Schools will be randomly allocated to eit ....

Health Districts , Collaborative Network Trial , Wales Local Health Districts , New South Wales Local Health Districts , New South Wales Local Health , Master Protocol , Local Health Districts , Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry , Aster Protocol , Public Health Nutrition , Randomized Controlled Trial ,