Investigating best practices of district-wide physical activity programmatic efforts in US schools- a mixed-methods approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of US children do not meet physical activity recommendations. Schools are an important environment for promoting physical activity in children, yet most school districts do not offer enough physical activity opportunities to meet recommendations. This study aimed to identify school districts across the country that demonstrated exemplary efforts to provide students with many physical activity opportunities and to understand the factors that facilitated their programmatic success.

Methods

A total of 59 districts were identified as model districts by members of the Physical Activity and Health Innovation Collaborative, an ad hoc activity associated with the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

SUBMITTER: Economos CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6117892 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature