The Effects of Bike Desks in Formal Education Classroom-Based Physical Activity: A Systematic Review

Beatriz Polo-Recuero, Miguel Ángel Rojo-Tirado, Alfonso Ordóñez-Dios, Denise Breitkreuz and Alberto Lorenzo
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Beatriz Polo-Recuero: Department of Sports, Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Miguel Ángel Rojo-Tirado: LFE Research Group, Department of Health and Human Performance, Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Alfonso Ordóñez-Dios: Department of Physical Education, Sport and Human Motor Skills, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Denise Breitkreuz: Department of Health and Human Performance, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA
Alberto Lorenzo: Department of Sports, Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-11

Abstract: A systematic review of the research conducted on classroom-based physical activity using bike desks, a school health prevention strategy. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review of bike desks effects on formal education students. Articles from two databases, Web of Science and PubMed, were analyzed according to PRISMA. The quality of each study was analyzed. After the exclusion criteria, eight articles were fully assessed based on six criteria: (1) author and year, (2) setting and sample, (3) duration, (4) outcomes measurements, (5) instruments and (6) main results. The results show how the interventions are mainly in secondary education and university, and most of them are quantitative studies of short-term interventions. Physical activity is the most frequently variable assessed, using logs, questionnaires and objective methods such as accelerometry and heart rate monitoring. Based on all the studies, it is feasible to implement bike desks in the classroom during theoretical lessons. The weaknesses are related to small samples and the use of different instruments to measure. In conclusion, this systematic review compiles the current information about bike desks in order to inform teachers and administrators for the implementation of bike desk in their schools. They should consider bike desks’ strengths and weaknesses.

Keywords: physically active learning; active schools; health; adolescents; inactivity; sedentarism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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