ERIC Number: EJ991910
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Aug
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1059-8405
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Pilot Intervention to Increase Physical Activity among Sedentary Urban Middle School Girls: A Two-Group Pretest-Posttest Quasi-Experimental Design
Robbins, Lorraine B.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Maier, Kimberly S.; Lo, Yun-Jia; Wesolek, Stacey M.
Journal of School Nursing, v28 n4 p302-315 Aug 2012
The primary purpose of the study was to determine whether girls in one school receiving nurse counseling plus an after-school physical activity club showed greater improvement in physical activity, cardiovascular fitness, and body composition than girls assigned to an attention control condition in another school (N = 69). Linear regressions controlling for baseline measures showed no statistically significant group differences, but the directionality of differences was consistent with greater intervention group improvement for minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity/hour (t = 0.95, p = 0.35), cardiovascular fitness (t = 1.26, p = 0.22), body mass index (BMI; t = -1.47, p = 0.15), BMI z score (t = -1.19, p = 0.24), BMI percentile (t = -0.59, p = 0.56), percentage body fat (t = -0.86, p = 0.39), and waist circumference (t = -0.19, p = 0.85). Findings support testing with a larger sample. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Females, Physical Activities, Intervention, Body Composition, Attention Control, Quasiexperimental Design, Physical Fitness, Health Promotion, School Nurses, Counseling Services, Clubs, Regression (Statistics), Urban Areas, Middle School Students, Physical Activity Level
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools
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Language: English
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