The Minne-Loppet Motivation Study: An Intervention to Increase Motivation for Outdoor Winter Physical Activity in Ethnically and Racially Diverse Elementary Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To test the effectiveness of an intervention to increase motivation for physical activity in racially diverse third- through fifth-grade students.

Design

Natural experiment.

Setting

Elementary schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Participants

Two hundred ninety-one students in 18 Minne-Loppet Ski Program classes and 210 students in 12 control classrooms from the same schools.

Intervention

The Minne-Loppet Ski Program, an 8-week curriculum in elementary schools that teaches healthy physical activity behaviors through cross-country skiing.

Measures

Pretest and posttest surveys measured self-determination theory outcomes: intrinsic exercise motivation, intrinsic ski motivation, autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

Analysis

Hierarchical

SUBMITTER: Miller JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6135702 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature