ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Considerations for Individual-Level Versus Whole-School Physical Activity Interventions: Stakeholder Perspectives.
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- Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco or alcohol use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Feasibility and acceptability of an implementation strategy to enhance use of classroom-based physical activity approaches in elementary schools: a mixed methods study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Stakeholder perspectives on the barriers and facilitators of engagement in healthy lifestyle behaviours in underrepresented adolescents: a focus group study from the European SEEDS project.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Primary school physical activity culture in the UK: findings from a four-month rapid ethnography in three schools.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Using implementation mapping to design an implementation strategy for classroom-based physical activity approaches in elementary schools.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Raising active children: how family and school shape health-promoting physical activity-findings from the FAMIPASS study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Promoting daily physical activity in Norway as a FYSAK school: a comparative longitudinal study of lower secondary school pupil.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives of before-school physical activity.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Initial insights into the impact and implementation of Creating Active Schools in Bradford, UK.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Child and adolescent obesity.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- How to select interventions for promoting physical activity in schools? Combining preferences of stakeholders and scientists.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
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- Observed and perceived benefits of providing physical activity opportunities in elementary schools: a qualitative study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Elementary school staff perspectives on the implementation of physical activity approaches in practice: an exploratory sequential mixed methods study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Assessing the Impacts of Creating Active Schools on Organisational Culture for Physical Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Strategies to address declining physical activity levels among children and adolescents have focused on 'individual-level' approaches which often fail to demonstrate impact. Recent attention has been on an alternative 'whole-school' approach to increasing physical activity that involves promoting physical activity throughout all aspects of the school environment. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how whole-school physical activity approaches could be implemented in the UK. This qualitative study explored perspectives of key stakeholders on potential reasons for the lack of impact of individual-level school-based interventions on children's physical activity, and key considerations for adopting a whole-school approach. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders involved in the implementation of physical activity programmes in UK schools. Data were analysed using an inductive approach. Respondents suggested that individual-level school-based interventions to increase physical activity often failed to consult end users in the design and were typically implemented in environments unsupportive of long-term change. They subsequently outlined specific barriers and key facilitators for the adoption and implementation of whole-school approaches in UK settings and recommended a shift in research foci towards building an evidence base around educational outcomes and whole-school implementation insights.
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