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A School- and Home-Based Intervention to Improve Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Pilot Study
- Source :
- The Journal of School Nursing. 36:121-134
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2018.
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Abstract
- This study evaluated feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 12-week Guys/Girls Opt for Activities for Life (GOAL) intervention on 10- to 13-year-old adolescents’ body mass index (BMI), percent body fat, physical activity (PA), diet quality, and psychosocial perceptions related to PA and healthy eating. Parent–adolescent dyads from two schools were enrolled. Schools were assigned to either GOAL (38 dyads) or control (43 dyads) condition. The intervention included an after-school club for adolescents 2 days/week, parent–adolescent dyad meeting, and parent Facebook group. Intervention adolescents had greater autonomous motivation for PA and self-efficacy for healthy eating than control adolescents (both p < .05). Although between-group differences were not significant, close-to-moderate effect sizes resulted for accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous PA and diet quality measured via 24-hr dietary recall ( d = .46 and .44, respectively). A trivial effect size occurred for percent body fat ( d = −.10). No differences emerged for BMI. Efficacy testing with a larger sample may be warranted.
- Subjects :
- Male
Michigan
Nursing (miscellaneous)
Adolescent
education
Pilot Projects
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Health Promotion
Overweight
Vulnerable Populations
Body Mass Index
03 medical and health sciences
Social support
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Parent-Child Relations
Child
Exercise
Self-efficacy
Motivation
business.industry
medicine.disease
Obesity
Self Efficacy
Physical activity level
Race Factors
Body Composition
Feasibility Studies
Female
Diet, Healthy
medicine.symptom
business
Body mass index
Psychosocial
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15468364 and 10598405
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of School Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7a3f42aa85612717863c3648c1e74581