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Randomised controlled feasibility study of a school-based multi-level intervention to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour among vocational school students

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, March 2017
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Title
Randomised controlled feasibility study of a school-based multi-level intervention to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour among vocational school students
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12966-017-0484-0
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Nelli Hankonen, Matti T. J. Heino, Sini-Tuuli Hynynen, Hanna Laine, Vera Araújo-Soares, Falko F. Sniehotta, Tommi Vasankari, Reijo Sund, Ari Haukkala

Abstract

No school-based physical activity (PA) interventions among older adolescents have demonstrated long-term effectiveness, and few of them so far have addressed sedentary behaviour (SB). Based on behavioural theories and evidence, we designed a multi-level intervention to increase PA and decrease SB among vocational school students. This study investigates feasibility and acceptability of two main intervention components and research procedures. We also examine uptake of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) by the participants. Design was an outcome assessor blinded, cluster-randomised controlled trial. Four classes of students (matched pairs) were randomised into one intervention and one control arm. The intervention consisted of (1) a 6-h group-based intervention for students, (2) two 2-h training workshops to reduce their students' sitting in class for teachers, and (3) provision of light PA equipment in classrooms. At baseline (T1), mid-intervention (T2) at 3 weeks, post-intervention (T3) and 6 months after baseline (T4) we measured hypothesised psychosocial mediators and self-reported PA and sitting. Objective assessment of PA and SB (7-day accelerometry) was conducted at T1, T3 and T4. Body composition (bioimpedance) was measured at T1 and T4. Students and teachers in the intervention arm filled in acceptability questionnaires at T3. Recruitment rate was 64% (students) and 88.9% (teachers), and at T3, all post-intervention measurements were completed by 33 students (retention 76.7%) and 15 teachers (retention 93.8%). Acceptability ratings of sessions were high (students M = 6.29, scale 1-7), and data collection procedures were feasible. Intervention arm students reported increased use of BCTs, but uptake of some key BCTs was suboptimal. BCT use correlated highly with objective measures of PA. Based on both self-report and student evaluation, teachers in the intervention arm increased the use of sitting reduction strategies at post-intervention and T4 follow-up (p < .05). We detected willingness of the target groups to participate, good response rates to questionnaires, adequate retention, as well as acceptability of the trial protocol. Investigation of BCT use among students helped further enhance intervention procedures to promote BCT use. After making necessary modifications identified, intervention effectiveness can next be tested in a definitive trial. ISRCTN34534846 . Registered 23 May 2014. Retrospectively registered.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 13%
Student > Master 33 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Researcher 19 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 7%
Other 48 19%
Unknown 78 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 35 14%
Psychology 31 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 9%
Social Sciences 22 9%
Other 33 13%
Unknown 88 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 June 2017.
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#2,744,694
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Outputs from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#952
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#48,913
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#36
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