Physical education-based intervention with activity wristbands to promote students’ weekly physical activity

Santiago Guijarro-Romero, Daniel Mayorga-Vega, Carolina Casado-Robles and Jesús Viciana

The Journal of Educational Research, 2024, vol. 117, issue 6, 397-409

Abstract: The purpose was to examine the effect of an intermittent teaching unit based on the use of an activity wristband combined with other behavior modification techniques on secondary students’ weekly objectively-measured physical activity (PA). 176 secondary students (12-16 years) were cluster-randomly assigned into the activity wristband (AWG) and control groups. The AWG performed an eight-week intermittent teaching unit (last 15 min of each session) twice a week. The teaching unit consisted in the following strategies: activity wristband (24 h), adaptative step goals, and educational counseling, among others. Results showed that the AWG students improved activity wristband-measured weekly steps from baseline to the last week of the intervention (p

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2024.2431679

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