Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review the published literature on the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Literature search using PubMed, SCOPUS, Psychlit, Ovid Medline, Sportdiscus, and Embase up to December 2006. Review methods Two independent reviewers assessed studies against the following inclusion criteria: controlled trial, comparison of intervention to promote physical activity with no intervention control condition, participants younger than 18 years, and reported statistical analyses of a physical activity outcome measure. Levels of evidence, accounting for methodological quality, were assessed for three types of intervention, five settings, and three target populations.

Results

SUBMITTER: van Sluijs EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2001088 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature