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Study protocol: effects of school gardens on children’s physical activity

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Public Health, December 2014
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Title
Study protocol: effects of school gardens on children’s physical activity
Published in
Archives of Public Health, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/2049-3258-72-43
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Authors

Nancy M Wells, Beth M Myers, Charles R Henderson

Abstract

Childhood obesity is an epidemic. Strategies are needed to promote children's healthy habits related to diet and physical activity. School gardens have the potential to bolster children's physical activity and reduce time spent in sedentary activity; however little research has examined the effect of gardens on children's physical activity. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) examines the effect of school gardens on children's overall physical activity and sedentary behavior; and on children's physical activity during the school day. In addition, physical activity levels and postures are compared using direct observation, outdoors, in the garden and indoors, in the classroom.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Unknown 133 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 17%
Student > Bachelor 21 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 15%
Researcher 11 8%
Other 9 7%
Other 26 19%
Unknown 27 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 18%
Social Sciences 22 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 9%
Psychology 10 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Other 30 22%
Unknown 30 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 04 March 2015.
All research outputs
#5,212,317
of 25,579,912 outputs
Outputs from Archives of Public Health
#333
of 1,162 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#68,394
of 369,157 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Public Health
#10
of 16 outputs
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