ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017
Elementary physical education: A focus on fitness activities and smaller class sizes are associated with higher levels of physical activity.
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- Effects of Before-School Physical Activity on Obesity Prevention and Wellness.American journal of preventive medicine · 2018Trial
- The impact of learn, exercise, and game structured curriculum model on physical activity in children aged 3-6 years.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- School-Based TGfU Volleyball Intervention Improves Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Primary School Students: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity levels of children with intellectual disability during physical education classes.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Physical Activity Time and Intensity in Physical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Perceptual and motor skills · 2022Article
- Effects of After-School Volleyball Program on Body Composition in Overweight Adolescent Girls.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Segmented School Physical Activity and Weight Status in Children: Application of Compositional Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effects of gender, activity type, class location and class composition on physical activity levels experienced during physical education classes in British secondary schools: a pilot cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Effect of a Six-Week Core Conditioning as a Warm-Up Exercise in Physical Education Classes on Physical Fitness, Movement Capability, and Balance in School-Aged Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Determinants of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in German Elementary School Physical Education Lessons.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2020Article
- Teaching Games for Understanding Intervention to Promote Physical Activity among Secondary School Students.BioMed research international · 2018Article
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Abstract
Optimizing physical activity during physical education is necessary for children to achieve daily physical activity recommendations. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among various contextual factors with accelerometer measured physical activity during elementary physical education. Data were collected during 2015-2016 from 281 students (1st-5th grade, 137 males, 144 females) from a private school located in a metropolitan area of Utah in the U.S. Students wore accelerometers for 12 consecutive weeks at an accelerometer wear frequency of 3 days per week during physical education. A multi-level general linear mixed effects model was employed to examine the relationship among various physical education contextual factors and percent of wear time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (%MVPA), accounting for clustering of observations within students and the clustering of students within classrooms. Explored contextual factors included grade level, lesson context, sex, and class size. Main effects and interactions among the factors were explored in the multi-level models. A two-way interaction of lesson context and class size on %MVPA was shown to be statistically significant. The greatest differences were found to be between fitness lessons using small class sizes compared to motor skill lessons using larger class sizes (β = 14.8%, 95% C.I. 5.7%-23.9%
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