Family-based interventions to increase physical activity in children: a meta-analysis and realist synthesis protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the established relationship between physical activity and health, data suggest that many children are insufficiently active, and that levels decline into adolescence. Engaging the family in interventions may increase and maintain children's physical activity levels at the critical juncture before secondary school. Synthesis of existing evidence will inform future studies, but the heterogeneity in target populations recruited, behaviour change techniques and intervention strategies employed, and measurement conducted, may require a multifaceted review method. The primary objective of this work will therefore be to synthesis evidence from intervention studies that explicitly engage the family unit to increase children's physical activity using an innovative dual

SUBMITTER: Brown HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4127934 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature