Impact of Three Years of Classroom Physical Activity Bouts on Time-on-Task Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Participation in classroom physical activity (PA) may improve time-on-task (TOT); however, the influence of sustained moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) on TOT is unknown.

Purpose

To explore the influence of classroom PA delivered with academic lessons on TOT, determine if the relationship between classroom PA and TOT differs by age, sex, race/ethnicity, weight or baseline fitness, and identify the influence of MVPA on TOT when controlling for demographic variables.

Methods

Teachers in intervention schools were asked to deliver two 10-min PA lessons per day, 5 d·wk. PA was observed in both intervention and control schools to determine the amount and intensity of PA. Time-on-task was observed before and immediately after PA. Anthropometrics and fitness were assessed at baseline an

SUBMITTER: Szabo-Reed AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5645225 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature