A comparative study found that a seven-year school-based exercise programme increased physical activity levels in both sexes
(2018) In Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics 107(4). p.701-707- Abstract
Aim: This study assessed whether a Swedish school-based exercise intervention programme could increase total physical activity. Methods: We followed up 228 children who started school in 1998-2000 seven years later, when they had reached a mean age of 14.8. The 152 children (59% boys) at the intervention school did 200 minutes of physical education per week during that period, and the 76 children (50% boys) in the three control schools did the standard 60 minutes. Questionnaires assessed the durations of total and leisure-time physical activity and screen-time activity at baseline and after five and seven years. Results: Physical activity and screen-time activity were similar between the two groups before the study started. The... (More)
Aim: This study assessed whether a Swedish school-based exercise intervention programme could increase total physical activity. Methods: We followed up 228 children who started school in 1998-2000 seven years later, when they had reached a mean age of 14.8. The 152 children (59% boys) at the intervention school did 200 minutes of physical education per week during that period, and the 76 children (50% boys) in the three control schools did the standard 60 minutes. Questionnaires assessed the durations of total and leisure-time physical activity and screen-time activity at baseline and after five and seven years. Results: Physical activity and screen-time activity were similar between the two groups before the study started. The intervention group then achieved higher durations of total physical activity than the controls (p < 0.001) and these levels remained in the sex-specific evaluations. There were no differences between the groups in the durations of leisure-time activity (p 0.08-0.77) or screen-time activity (p 0.31-0.91). Conclusion: A school-based exercise intervention programme increased the total duration of physical activity in both sexes without any compensatory increase in screen-time activity. The findings contradict the activity-stat theory, which stated that the duration of physical activity in children is constant.
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- Cronholm, Felix LU ; Rosengren, Björn E. LU ; Karlsson, Caroline LU and Karlsson, Magnus K. LU
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- 2018
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- keywords
- Children, Exercise, Intervention, Physical education, School
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- Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
- volume
- 107
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 701 - 707
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- Wiley-Blackwell
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- scopus:85038848308
- pmid:29194764
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- 0803-5253
- DOI
- 10.1111/apa.14172
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- English
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- 2645daf9-f2ad-489f-ab2b-6314923cfe12
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abstract = {{<p>Aim: This study assessed whether a Swedish school-based exercise intervention programme could increase total physical activity. Methods: We followed up 228 children who started school in 1998-2000 seven years later, when they had reached a mean age of 14.8. The 152 children (59% boys) at the intervention school did 200 minutes of physical education per week during that period, and the 76 children (50% boys) in the three control schools did the standard 60 minutes. Questionnaires assessed the durations of total and leisure-time physical activity and screen-time activity at baseline and after five and seven years. Results: Physical activity and screen-time activity were similar between the two groups before the study started. The intervention group then achieved higher durations of total physical activity than the controls (p < 0.001) and these levels remained in the sex-specific evaluations. There were no differences between the groups in the durations of leisure-time activity (p 0.08-0.77) or screen-time activity (p 0.31-0.91). Conclusion: A school-based exercise intervention programme increased the total duration of physical activity in both sexes without any compensatory increase in screen-time activity. The findings contradict the activity-stat theory, which stated that the duration of physical activity in children is constant.</p>}},
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series = {{Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics}},
title = {{A comparative study found that a seven-year school-based exercise programme increased physical activity levels in both sexes}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.14172}},
doi = {{10.1111/apa.14172}},
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