Trial reportBMC public health2015
Active Living: development and quasi-experimental evaluation of a school-centered physical activity intervention for primary school children.
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- Pooled 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 · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Mobile Health Including Wearable Activity Trackers to Increase Physical Activity Outcomes Among Healthy Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Pooled it
- Measuring implementation fidelity of school-based obesity prevention programmes: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Pooled it
- A school-based physical activity promotion intervention in children: rationale and study protocol for the PREVIENE Project.BMC public health · 2017Trial
- Physical activity interventions in European primary schools: a scoping review to create a framework for the design of tailored interventions in European countries.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Do parenting practices moderate the association between the physical neighbourhood environment and changes in children's time spent at various physical activity levels? An exploratory longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Physical Activity Levels of Chilean Children in a National School Intervention Programme. A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Implementation of KEIGAAF in Primary Schools: A Mutual Adaptation Physical Activity and Nutrition Intervention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Process evaluation of the healthy primary School of the Future: the key learning points.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Non-response and external validity in a school-based quasi-experimental study 'The Healthy Primary School of the Future': A cross-sectional assessment.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Shining light inside the tunnel: using photovoice as a strategy to define the needs for health promotion among families of low socioeconomic status.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2018Article
- Protocol for evaluating the impact of a national school policy on physical activity levels in Danish children and adolescents: the PHASAR study - a natural experiment.BMC public health · 2018Article
- The Healthy Primary School of the Future: A Contextual Action-Oriented Research Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Study protocol of the quasi-experimental evaluation of "KEIGAAF": a context-based physical activity and nutrition intervention for primary school children.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Relationship between Recreational Resources in the School Neighborhood and Changes in Fitness in New York City Public School Students.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2017Article
- Playability of school-environments and after-school physical activity among 8-11 year-old children: specificity of time and place.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe worldwide increase in the rates of childhood overweight and physical inactivity requires successful prevention and intervention programs for children. The aim of the Active Living project is to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior of Dutch primary school children by developing and implementing tailored, multicomponent interventions at and around schools. METHODS/
designIn this project, school-centered interventions have been developed at 10 schools in the south of the Netherlands, using a combined top-down and bottom-up approach in which a research unit and a practice unit continuously interact. The interventions consist of a combination of physical and social interventions tailored to local needs of intervention schools. The process and short- and long-term effectiveness of the interventions will be evaluated using a quasi-experimental study design in which 10 intervention schools are matched with 10 control schools. Baseline and follow-up measurements (after 12 and 24 months) have been conducted in grades 6 and 7 and included accelerometry, GPS, and questionnaires. Primary outcome of the Active Living study is the change in physical activity levels, i.e. sedentary behavior (SB), light physical activity (LPA), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and counts-per-minute (CPM). Multilevel regression analyses will be used to assess the effectiveness of isolated and combined physical and social interventions on children's PA levels. DISCUSSION: The current intervention study is unique in its combined approach of physical and social environmental PA interventions both at school(yard)s as well as in the local neighborhood around the schools. The strength of the study lies in the quasi-experimental design including objective measurement techniques, i.e. accelerometry and GPS, combined with more subjective techniques, i.e. questionnaires, implementation logbooks, and neighborhood observations.
trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN25497687 (registration date 21/10/2015), METC 12-4-077, Project number 200130003.
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