Effect of Extracurricular After-School Physical Activities on Academic Performance of Schoolchildren: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The beneficial effects of increasing outdoor physical activity time on children's myopia onset and physical well-being are widely acknowledged. However, in countries with competitive educational systems, such as China, parents and school administrators may be relatively reluctant to increase the extracurricular physical activity time for children due to concerns that this action will compromise children's academic performance.

Objective

To investigate whether additional extracurricular physical activity time after school compromises the academic performance of schoolchildren.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted from October 2020 to June 2021 in Yudu, Jiangxi, China. Eligible children in grades 3 and 4 from

SUBMITTER: Wang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507588 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature