- Title
- Evaluation of an extra-curricular school sport programme promoting lifestyle and lifetime activity for adolescents
- Creator
- Lubans, David; Morgan, Philip J.
- Relation
- Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 26, Issue 5, p. 519-529
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640410701624549
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of an extra-curricular school sport programme to promote physical activity among adolescents. One hundred and sixteen students (mean age 14.2 years, s=0.5) were assigned to an intervention (n=50) or comparison group (n=66). The 8-week intervention involved structured exercise activities and information sessions. Four days of pedometer monitoring and time spent in non-organized physical activity and sedentary behaviours were measured at baseline and post-test. At baseline, participants were classified using steps per day as low-active (girls < 11,000, boys < 13,000) or active (girls ≥ 11,000, boys ≥ 13,000) and the effects of the intervention were assessed using these subgroups. Adolescents in the intervention group classified as low-active at baseline increased their step counts across the 8-week intervention (baseline: 7716 steps/day, s=1751; post-test: 10,301 steps/day, s=4410; P < 0.05) and accumulated significantly more steps (P<0.05) than their peers in the comparison group (baseline: 8414 steps/day, s=2460; post-test: 8248 steps/day, s=3674; P=0.879). The results of the present study provide further evidence that physical activity monitoring using pedometers is an effective strategy for increasing activity among low-active adolescents.
- Subject
- exercise; schools; pedometers; intervention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39926
- Identifier
- uon:4522
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-0414
- Rights
- This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 26, Issue 5, p. 519-529. Journal of Sports Sciences is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0264-0414&volume=26&issue=5&spage=519
- Language
- eng
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