The Secret Sauce? Taking the Mystery Out of Scaling-Up School-Based Physical Activity Interventions.
J Phys Act Health
; 21(8): 731-740, 2024 Aug 01.
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| ID: mdl-38936808
ABSTRACT
Over the last 4 decades, physical activity researchers have invested heavily in determining "what works" to promote healthy behaviors in schools. Single and multicomponent school-based interventions that target physical education, active transportation, and/or classroom activity breaks effectively increased physical activity among children and youth. Yet, few of these interventions are ever scaled-up and implemented under real-world conditions and in diverse populations. To achieve population-level health benefits, there is a need to design school-based health-promoting interventions for scalability and to consider key aspects of the scale-up process. In this opinion piece, we aim to identify challenges and advance knowledge and action toward scaling-up school-based physical activity interventions. We highlight the key roles of planning for scale-up at the outset, scale-up pathways, trust among partners and program support, program adaptation, evaluation of scale-up, and barriers and facilitators to scaling-up. We draw upon our experience scaling-up effective school-based interventions and provide a solid foundation from which others can work toward bridging the implementation-to-scale-up gap.
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Assunto principal:
Serviços de Saúde Escolar
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Exercício Físico
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Promoção da Saúde
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Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article