Using physical education to promote out-of school physical activity in lower secondary school students - a randomized controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the documented decline in levels of physical activity in early adolescence, promoting physical activity in young people is a priority for health promotion. School physical education (PE) is an important existing network in which participation in physical activity beyond school can be promoted to the captive young people. The objective of current article is to present the protocol for a PE teacher-delivered theory-based trial to promote secondary school students' participation in physical activity out-of-school contexts. The intervention will be guided by the trans-contextual model explaining the processes by which PE teachers' support for autonomous motivation in the classroom promotes students' motivation to engage in out-of-school physical activity. We hypothesiz

SUBMITTER: Polet J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364480 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature