Trial reportPreventing chronic disease2010
Putting physical activity where it fits in the school day: preliminary results of the ABC (Activity Bursts in the Classroom) for fitness program.
Trial report in Preventing chronic disease, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Classroom Movement Breaks in Relation to Health and Academic Outcomes: An Umbrella Review.The Journal of school health · 2026Pooled it
- Children's Physical Activity, Academic Performance, and Cognitive Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2020Pooled it
- Class Time Physical Activity Programs for Primary School Aged Children at Specialist Schools: A Systematic Mapping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of school-based physical activity on mathematics performance in children: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Moderators of School-Based Physical Activity Interventions on Cardiorespiratory Endurance in Primary School-Aged Children: A Meta-Regression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of classroom-based physical activity interventions on academic and physical activity outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Pooled it
- Physical Activity, Fitness, Cognitive Function, and Academic Achievement in Children: A Systematic Review.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2016Pooled it
- School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2012Guideline
- Effects of an Acute Physical Activity Break on Test Anxiety and Math Test Performance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
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- A primary school active break programme (ACTI-BREAK): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.Trials · 2017Trial
- A classroom-based physical activity intervention for urban kindergarten and first-grade students: a feasibility study.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2015Trial
- Differential impact of various in-class physical exercise interventions on cognitive function and mathematics achievement in primary school children.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Effect of Physical-Activity-Based Programs on School Children's Cognitive Competence-Related Variables: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effects of plyometric-based structured game active breaks on fundamental movement skills, muscular fitness, self-perception, and actual behaviour in primary school students.Biology of sport · 2024Article
- Efficiency of an Alternative Physical Education Program for the Lower Grades of Elementary School Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- How physical exercise influences academic burnout among Chinese "Double Non" college students: the chain mediation role of mobile phone addiction and learning engagement.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Effects of Active Breaks on Physical Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study in a Region of Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
introductionDespite well-documented evidence that physical activity is beneficial to children, average fitness levels of US children have declined. Lack of physical activity has been associated with childhood obesity. We evaluated the effects of a physical activity program in the elementary school classroom on health outcomes.
methodsThree schools in the Independence School District in Independence, Missouri, were assigned to receive the ABC (Activity Bursts in the Classroom) for Fitness program, and 2 comparable schools served as controls. The program, led by classroom teachers, provides multiple, brief, structured physical activity breaks throughout the day. Baseline data for the study were collected in September 2007, and follow-up data were collected in April 2008.
resultsPhysical fitness measures of upper-body strength, abdominal strength, and trunk extensor improved (P <.001). Medication use for asthma (P = .03), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (P = .07), or either medication combined (P = .005) decreased.
conclusionThe effects of the program on daily physical activity, fitness, and measures of health are beneficial.
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