[PDF] Top 20 Assessment of a two-year school-based physical activity intervention among 7-9-year-old children

... Measuring school-based physical activity at the end of each school year, similar to what was done at the beginning of each school year, would likely have provided ... See full document

... cluded children with severe mental and physical health problem, twins and triplets to enhance com- parability between the two groups of ...children’s physical activities; this could ... See full document

... recruited based on parental BMI (at least one parent with BMI ≥ 30 or two parents with BMI ≥ 25) from pediatric health care centers in Stockholm before the child’s first ...group. Children with ... See full document

... trained children achieved significant improvements on their body composition and functional capacity compared with the control ...for 9–10 year old children with ...(10,23). ... See full document

... the school-environments was assessed by two trained researchers using the SPACE observa- tion instrument [35, 36], within an 800 m radius from each school, while acknowledging natural barriers such ... See full document

... examine physical activity across the weight ...and physical activity. Sex differences in physical activity (total and MVPA) have been widely reported and significant sex by BMI ... See full document

... 524 children at 8 years of age were asked, and 416 ...(78.4%) children were clini- cally examined and tested for motor competence, and 377 ...(71.4%) children. Twenty-five (4.8%) of those ... See full document

... poorer physical activity ...a physical activity policy and vigorous activity ...the activity during these lessons should have been recorded by the accelero- ...active ... See full document

... 10–11 year old children recruited from 11 primary schools in Bristol, ...area based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), a UK government produced area level measure of deprivation that ... See full document

... Yet, school-based PA programs proved that it is challenging to reach sustainable effects on PA [45], so it would be better to focus on increasing MC to initiate a positive feedback loop [46], ... See full document

... the school questionnaire, head teachers were asked to indicate how long break times lasted, whether the school had access to a specific indoor hall for gym or sports, and in which area children could ... See full document

... of physical fitness and motor skill ability are sometimes assumed to result from a high PA level (Castelli & Valley, ...and physical fitness are personal attributes, PA is a behavior and as such is ... See full document

... the intervention delivery, questionnaire, teacher ’ s intervention delivery log and semi-structured interviews with teachers and ...43 intervention school teachers/teaching staff (98 %) were ... See full document

... to/from school from trips to other ...that children who practiced AST accumulated ...that children who engaged in AST obtained 6 additional minutes per day in ...day among ... See full document

... targeting children alone is likely to be insuffi- cient to facilitate change ...the intervention was not employed to the same degree by teachers or that the strategies were less exten- sive, and therefore ... See full document

... questionnaire among children has been difficult. According to recent review [7, 8], the repeatability of PA questionnaires among chil- dren varies usually between acceptable to good, and the ... See full document

... other children. Furthermore, for each regression analyses two sets of models were created: one examining the effect of each variable on cycle frequency to school inde- pendently, while adjusting for ... See full document

... for Children and Youth (Tremblay et ...benefits, children and youth between the ages of 5 and 17 should: (a) minimize the amount of time they spend being sedentary each day; and (b) limit screen time to ... See full document

... evaluate children knowledge after oral health education ...schools children at the baseline knew the correct information about the signs and symptoms of gum diseases but the horrifying matter is that almost ... See full document

... of children with different types of SEN and how they are faring at ...SEN among certain groups of socially-marginalised children, for whom SEN identification may lead to stigmatisation and isolation ... See full document