Trial reportBMC public health2020
Active play in ASP -a matched-pair cluster-randomized trial investigating the effectiveness of an intervention in after-school programs for supporting children's physical activity.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02954614 (Active Play -an After-school-program Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Health-related Quality of Life in Young Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Active Play -an After-school-program Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Health-related Quality of Life in Young Children
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Active Scandinavia: examining physical activity levels across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions in outside-school hours childcare settings for promoting physical activity amongst schoolchildren aged 4 to 12 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled 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
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- Changing trajectory of daily physical activity levels among at-risk adolescents: influences of motivational mechanisms.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Association between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity trajectories and academic achievement in Chinese primary school children: a 3-year longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The influence of social support, social affiliation and intrinsic motivation for increasing underserved youth's physical activity: A social climate-based intervention study.Journal of sports sciences · 2023Article
- Effect of Linear and Nonlinear Pedagogy Physical Education Interventions on Children's Physical Activity: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (SAMPLE-PE).Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Intervention Effects of the Health Promotion Programme "Join the Healthy Boat" on Objectively Assessed Sedentary Time in Primary School Children in Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundInterventions directed at after school programs (ASPs) have the potential to support physical activity (PA) in young children. Research has indicated that interventions that emphasize competence building among the ASP staff can lead to increased PA among the children. The present study evaluates the effectiveness of the Active Play in ASP intervention-a program for ASP staff aimed at supporting physical activity among first graders in ASP.
methodsWe used a matched-pair cluster randomized design and included 456 first graders from 14 schools in Norway. From these, 7 ASPs received the intervention (N = 229), while 7 acted as controls (N = 227). Measurements were taken at baseline, immediately post intervention (7 month follow-up) and after a year (19 month follow-up). The primary outcome was moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), which was estimated with predefined cut points of counts per minute (CPM) and expressed as minutes/hour. Secondary outcomes were vigorous and light intensity physical activity (VPA and LPA) and sedentary behavior. The analyses of intervention effects were based on between-group differences in outcome changes between the 3 measurement points and were conducted using a mixed-effects model for repeated measures using categorical time. In exploratory analyses, we investigated gender, baseline body mass index, and baseline CPM as potential effect modifiers.
resultsNo significant intervention effects was observed on MVPA (0.55 min/hour [99% CI -0.55:1.64]) or on the secondary outcomes, min/hour of LPA, VPA or sedentary behavior. Exploratory analyses indicated that among the 50% least physically active children at baseline, children in intervention ASPs reduced sedentary time from baseline to 19 months follow up by 1.67 min/hour (95% CI -3.12:-0.21) compared to the controls.
conclusionsAlthough the intervention did not significantly increase the mean MVPA among the children in the intervention ASPs compared to controls, it did seem to have a small effect by reducing sedentary behavior time among the least active children. An even stronger emphasis on how to identify less active children and support their activity may be needed in order to increase their PA and further reduce sedentary behavior time.
trial registrationClinicalTrials; NCT02954614, Registered 3 November 2016, -Retrospectively registered, first participant enrolled August 2016.
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