Specific Strategies for Promotion of Physical Activity in Kids—Which Ones Work? A Systematic Review of the Literature

McDonald, Samantha; Clennin, Morgan N.; Pate, Russell R.

doi:10.1177/1559827615616381

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“…The results also show that the intervention was attractive for the school to re-use year after year and it was easy to integrate assignments from the curriculum. This is important because it has been concluded previously that this integration can contribute to lower rates of exhaustion [ 20 ], and that school-based interventions need to be feasible and not consume too much time [ 37 ].…”

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Long-Term Perspectives of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Active School Transportation

Savolainen

Rutberg

Backman

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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There is a global need for sustainable interventions that increase physical activity among children, and active school transportation (AST) can promote physical activity among schoolchildren. Therefore, an intervention based on gamification, empowerment, and social cognitive theory was initiated in 2016 to promote AST. The aim of this study was to follow up on participants’ experiences one and two years after the AST intervention was initiated. Data were collected through focus groups and individual interviews which were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Thirty-one pupils (2017), and forty pupils (2018) aged 9–10 years, two teachers (2017, 2018) and one principal (2018) participated in the study. The result is presented as one main theme; “Unity for an active community-An intervention towards making the active choice the easy choice” and three sub-themes; “Well begun is half done-Engagement sparks motivation”, “It takes two to tango-Keep moving with gamifications and togetherness” and “Jumping on the bandwagon–From project to everyday use.” The results show that the concept of the intervention was attractive to re-use and that it created a habit to use AST among the children. Interventions to promote AST can benefit from the use of engagement, togetherness, and gamification.

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Long-Term Perspectives of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Active School Transportation

Savolainen

Rutberg

Backman

et al. 2020

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“…To date, in the field of physical activity most work has been done for specific target groups [45, 46], specific settings [46, 47], disease prevention [48–50], and technology use [51–53]. There have been activities focusing on public policy evolution to promote physical activity [54–56] and some studies were conducted with a special focus on financial incentives without a focus on nudging [57–62].…”

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Nudging to move: a scoping review of the use of choice architecture interventions to promote physical activity in the general population

Forberger

Reisch

Kampfmann

et al. 2019

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Background Nudges are used to alter lifestyles and thus curb the rise of non-communicable diseases. Physical activity is a core prevention strategy to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases. This paper aims to (1) give an overview of the scope of interventions using choice architecture techniques to promote physical activity at the population levels and (2) identify research gaps by analysing the different approaches in terms of class and type of intervention used. Methods A systematic electronic database search was combined with snowball citation sampling of a starter set of publications to search for studies published through October 2018 reporting interventions to promote physical activity at the population level using choice architecture techniques. The methodology of the Joanna Briggs Institute for Scoping Reviews was applied. Results In all, 35 publications were included. Most of the interventions used point-of-choice prompts tested at railway stations, shopping malls and airports ( N = 27). Eight studies were online studies. While all studies were aimed at the general population, details, if reported at all, were vague and basic. All studies focused on individual-level lifestyle behaviour. None of the studies attempted to alter population-based lifestyle behaviour. Online and “real-world” approaches were rarely combined. Neither, interventions targeting meso- and macro-level structures nor combinations of individual-level and specific meso- or macro-level interventions were found. Conclusion Nudging is in principle an effective approach to promote physical activity within the general population. However, there are large gaps in research. Available opportunities have not yet been exhausted. Further research is needed that is explicitly based on behavioural insights and covering the full range of nudging approaches, particularly focussing on theoretical developments, practical feasibility tests and scale-up activities. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12966-019-0844-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…These physical activity interventions have shown increasing evidence of positive effects (McDonald et al, 2018) in the physical activity levels (Masini et al, 2020), academic performance (Bedard et al, 2018;Watson et al, 2017), and cognitive functions (Daly-Smith et al, 2018;Donnelly et al, 2016), and to a lower extent in improving indicators associated with psychological health. In this area, a recent systematic review that included 15 articles in a total sample of 6286 boys and girls from 148 primary schools (Papadopoulos et al, 2022) points out that physical activity in the classroom can affect the enjoyment of physical activity, self-efficacy in learning with video exercises, quality of life and self-confidence (Papadopoulos et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychological outcomes of classroom-based physical activity interventions in children 6- to 12-year-olds: A scoping review

Robles

Zapata-Lamana

Gutiérrez

et al. 2023

Retos

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This scoping review synthesizes the evidence of the psychological outcomes of physical activity interventions in the classroom in children aged 6 to 12 years and describes the characteristics of the physical activity interventions implemented. We systematically searched in databases MEDLINE, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Web of Science and SciELO, of randomized control trials published up to July 2020 of classroom-based physical activity interventions with children´s psychological health variables as outcomes. Sixteen trials (14,877 participants) with children aged 6 to 12 years were included. There were significant effects on several indicators of: a) psychological health outcomes: well-being, self-esteem, body image satisfaction b) self-efficacy and motivation to physical activity and c) behavior inside the classroom: self-regulation, bullying and disruptive behavior. The most effective interventions are those that included physical activity integrated into the curriculum 2-5 times a week, in sessions between 4' to 10', implemented mainly by the classroom teacher and with audio-visual support. However, the heterogeneity in program designs did not allow definitive conclusions. While psychological outcomes are mainly primary outcomes in the interventions studied, more evidence is required on other indicators of psychological health such as mental health symptoms. In addition, studies need to employ objective measures of physical activity to a better comprehension of their effects on psychological health of schoolchildren. Keywords: Physical Activity; Children; Psychological health; Schools; Intervention; Scoping review.

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Specific Strategies for Promotion of Physical Activity in Kids—Which Ones Work? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

Long-Term Perspectives of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Active School Transportation

Long-Term Perspectives of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Active School Transportation

Nudging to move: a scoping review of the use of choice architecture interventions to promote physical activity in the general population

Psychological outcomes of classroom-based physical activity interventions in children 6- to 12-year-olds: A scoping review

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