ArticleHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2022
Evaluation of Afterschool Activity Programs' (ASAP) Effect on Children's Physical Activity, Physical Health, and Fundamental Movement Skills.
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- DE-PASS Best Evidence Statement (BESt): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Trials on Device-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour and Their Determinants in Children Aged 5-12 Years.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Physical Literacy Interventions: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Recess as a Setting for Child Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Physical Activity, Motor Skills and Social-Emotional Functioning.The Journal of school health · 2026Trial
- Physical Literacy-Focused Education Improves Fitness Markers in Preadolescents: Implications for School-Based Health Promotion.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of a Physical-Literacy-Based Educational Intervention on Physical Activity and Body Composition in Preadolescent Children: A School-Based Controlled Trial.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Associations of sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity during out-of-school time and the risk of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a dose-response and isotemporal substitution analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of Centrality on Physical Activity in Late Childhood: A 1-Year Prospective Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- School-based promotion of physical literacy: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Effect of after-school physical activity on body composition in primary school children: The Slovak "PAD" project.Physiological reports · 2023Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundPhysical literacy-focused afterschool activity programs (ASAPs) can be an effective strategy to improve children's health-related parameters. We sought to compare physical activity, body composition, aerobic capacity, and fundamental movement skills between physical literacy-focused ASAP and a standard recreational ASAP.
methodA pre-post (6 months) comparison study was conducted in 5- to 12-year-old children in a physical literacy-focused ASAP (physical literacy group,
resultsThere were no significant differences between groups at baseline. After 6 months, the physical literacy group exhibited a significant improvement in their total raw score for the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 (
conclusionsEngagement in the physical literacy-focused ASAP contributed to an attenuated increase in adiposity and an improvement in object control skills.
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