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Feasibility of a school-based physical activity intervention for adolescents with disability
| العنوان: | Feasibility of a school-based physical activity intervention for adolescents with disability |
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| المؤلفون: | Leahy, Angus A., Kennedy, Sarah G. (R20423), Smith, Jordan J., Eather, Narelle, Boyer, James, Thomas, Matthew, Shields, Nora, Dascombe, Ben (R21089), Lubans, David R. |
| بيانات النشر: | U.K., BioMed Central |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | XXXXXX - Unknown |
| الوصف: | Background: Adolescents with disability are less active and have lower levels of physical fitness than their typically developing peers. Schools are ideal settings to address this; however, few school-based interventions have been designed and evaluated among this group. Therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to determine the feasibility of a time-efficient school-based physical activity intervention for adolescents with disability. Methods: A non-randomized pilot trial was conducted with adolescents in the special education unit at one secondary school in New South Wales, Australia. Sixteen grade 11 and 12 students (aged 17.3 ± 0.7 years) participated in the 2-month physical activity intervention. Two classroom teachers were trained to facilitate the delivery of a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program, known as Burn 2 Learn adapted (B2La). Teachers were asked to deliver 2–3 weekly HIIT sessions for a period of 2 months. Four domains of feasibility (acceptability, implementation, adaptability, and practicality) were assessed using quantitative measures at the student and teacher levels (e.g., observations, process evaluation questionnaires, and heart rate [HR] monitoring). Data were also collected from three learning and support teachers who assisted classroom teachers with intervention delivery. Preliminary efficacy of the intervention on measures of adolescents’ functional capacity (6-min walk/run test) and muscular fitness (sit-to-stand test and modified push-up test) were analyzed using paired sample t-tests. Results: Moderate-to-high levels of program satisfaction were reported by both students (80% rated “Good” or “Excellent”) and teachers (100% rated “Good” or “Excellent”). Teachers reported delivering 2.5 ± 0.7 sessions per week during the study. Based on researcher session observations, the program was delivered effectively by teachers (14/20). However, HR data indicated session intensity was lower than intended. The program was considered “adaptable” by teachers, with several observed ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
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| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | Pilot and Feasibility Studies--2055-5784 Vol. 7 No. 120 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40814-021-00857-5 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00857-5Test http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:60147Test |
| حقوق: | © The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0Test/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1EF2955B |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40814-021-00857-5 |
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