Improvements in Physical Activity Levels after the Implementation of an Active-Break-Model-Based Program in a Primary School

Julián A. Muñoz-Parreño, Noelia Belando-Pedreño, Gema Torres-Luque and Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela
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Julián A. Muñoz-Parreño: Health, Physical Activity and Education (SAFE), Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Murcia, 30720 Santiago de la Ribera, Spain
Noelia Belando-Pedreño: Departament of Sport Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odón, 28670 Madrid, Spain
Gema Torres-Luque: Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Corporal, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela: Health, Physical Activity and Education (SAFE), Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Murcia, 30720 Santiago de la Ribera, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyze changes in the physical activity levels in students after implementing an active break (AB)-model-based program during the school day. Forty-four fifth-grade primary school children (24 boys, 20 girls, with a mean age = 10.44 ± 0.45) participated in a 17 week program. After intervention, there was an increase in moderate and vigorous total activity during physical education lessons, non-physical education lessons, and recesses. Intervention programs to encourage physical activity and decrease sedentary time are recommended.

Keywords: accelerometry; primary school; active learning; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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