A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: results from genEffects systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To evaluate the effects of interventions on children's and adolescents' overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account.

Methods

Systematic review and semi-quantitative analysis. Eleven electronic databases were searched to identify all relevant randomized and non-randomized controlled trials. Studies had to report overall PA as the main outcome to be eligible for inclusion in the review. The main outcomes of the studies is a quantified measure of overall PA. Additionally, all studies had to report sex/gender disaggregated overall PA at baseline and/or follow up and/or explain how they dealt with sex/gender during outcome analysis (i.e., sex/gender adjusted analyses) a

SUBMITTER: Schulze C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547493 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature