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The Effect Of An Emerging School Playground Strategy To Encourage Children's Physical Activity: The Accelerometer Intensities From Movable Playground And Lunchtime Activities In Youth (Aim-Play) Study, Brendon P. Hyndman, Leanne Lester
The Effect Of An Emerging School Playground Strategy To Encourage Children's Physical Activity: The Accelerometer Intensities From Movable Playground And Lunchtime Activities In Youth (Aim-Play) Study, Brendon P. Hyndman, Leanne Lester
Dr Brendon P Hyndman
An emerging strategy to enhance children's opportunities for unstructured physical activity opportunities is to implement diverse materials on school playgrounds. The Accelerometer Intensities from Movable Playground and Lunchtime Activities in Youth (AIM-PLAY) study consisted of a movable/recycled materials intervention that included baseline, seven-week post-test and eight-month follow-up data collection phases. Children at an intervention school (n=54) and a matched control school (n=79) aged 5 to 12 years participated in the AIM-PLAY study. The study used accelerometers to measure the proportion of lunch breaks that children spent in each physical activity intensity, counts per minute and sedentary behavior. A multilevel mixed-effect …