ArticleChild: care, health and development2020
The Motor skills At Playtime intervention improves children's locomotor skills: A feasibility study.
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- Can active play replace skill-oriented physical education in enhancing fundamental movement skills among preschool children? A systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of structured and unstructured interventions on fundamental motor skills in preschool children: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Policy, systems, and environmental interventions addressing physical activity in early childhood education settings: A systematic review.Preventive medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Painted playgrounds for preschoolers' physical activity and fundamental motor skill improvement: a randomized controlled pilot trial of effectiveness.BMC pediatrics · 2023Trial
- Exploring Recommendations for Child and Adolescent Fundamental Movement Skills Development: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Protocol for a multicenter-cluster randomized clinical trial of a motor skills intervention to promote physical activity and health in children: the CHAMP afterschool program study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Bi-Directionality between Physical Activity within School and Fundamental Movement Skills in School-Aged Students: A Cross-Lagged Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Protocol for a quasi-experimental study examining the effect of a ball skills intervention on four domains of preschooler development.Primary health care research & development · 2021Article
- Using process- and product-oriented measures to evaluate changes in motor skills across an intervention.Measurement in physical education and exercise science · 2021Article
- The Feasibility and Challenges of Conducting Online Research to Examine Movement Behavior in Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundInterventions are needed to teach fundamental motor skills (FMS) to preschoolers. There is a need to design more practical and effective interventions that can be successfully implemented by non-motor experts and fit within the existing gross motor opportunities such as outdoor free play at the preschool. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a non-motor expert FMS intervention that was implemented during outdoor free play, Motor skills At Playtime (MAP).
methodsParticipants were preschoolers from two Head Start centres (N = 46; M
resultsThe non-motor expert was feasibly able to implement MAP with high fidelity (>93%). There was a significant treatment effect for MAP on process and product locomotor FMS (P < 0.05) and a trend for a treatment effect for MAP on total process FMS (P = 0.07).
conclusionResults support that MAP was successfully implemented by a non-motor expert and led to improvements in children's FMS, especially locomotor FMS.
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