The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex community sport intervention to increase physical activity: an interrupted time series design.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

An effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analyses of two-staged community sports interventions; taster sports sessions compared with portfolio of community sport sessions.

Design

Quasi-experiment using an interrupted time series design.

Setting

Community sports projects delivered by eight lead partners in London Borough of Hounslow, UK.

Participants

Inactive people aged 14 plus years (n=246) were recruited between May 2013 and February 2014.

Interventions

Community sports interventions delivered in two stages, 6-week programme of taster sport sessions (stage 1) and 6-week programme of portfolio of community sporting sessions delivered by trained coaches (stage 2).

Outcome measures

(a) Change in days with ≥30 min of self-reported vigorous

SUBMITTER: Anokye N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303583 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature