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Statewide dissemination and implementation of physical activity standards in afterschool programs: two-year results

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Title
Statewide dissemination and implementation of physical activity standards in afterschool programs: two-year results
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BMC Public Health, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5737-6
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Michael W. Beets, R. Glenn Weaver, Keith Brazendale, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Ruth P. Saunders, Justin B. Moore, Collin Webster, Mahmud Khan, Aaron Beighle

Abstract

In 2015, YMCA afterschool programs (ASPs) across South Carolina, USA pledged to achieve the YMCA physical activity standard calling for all children to accumulate 30 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) while attending their ASPs. This study presents the final two-year outcomes from the dissemination and implementation efforts associated with achieving this MVPA standard. Twenty ASPs were sampled from all South Carolina YMCA-operated ASPs (N = 97) and visited at baseline (2015) and first (2016) and second year (2017) follow-up. All ASPs were provided training to increase MVPA during the program by extending the scheduled time for activity opportunities and modifying commonly played games to increase MVPA. The RE-AIM framework was used to evaluate the statewide intervention. Accelerometer-derived MVPA was the primary outcome. Intent-to-treat (ITT) models were conducted summer 2017. Programs were also classified, based on changes in MVPA from 2015 to 2016 and 2016-2017, into one of three categories: gain, maintain, or lost. Implementation, within the three groups, was evaluated via direct observation and document review. Adoption during the first year was 45% of staff attending training, with this increasing to 67% of staff during the second year. ITT models indicated no increase in the odds of accumulating 30 min of MVPA after the first year for either boys (odds ratio [OR] 1.06, 95CI 0.86-1.31) or girls (OR 1.14, 95CI 0.87-1.50), whereas an increase in the odds was observed during the second year for boys (OR 1.31, 95CI 1.04-1.64) and girls (OR 1.50 95CI 1.01-1.80). Programs that lost MVPA (avg. - 5 to - 7.5 min/d MVPA) elected to modify their program in a greater number of non-supportive ways (e.g., reduce time for activity opportunities, less time spent outdoors), whereas ASPs that gained MVPA (avg. + 5.5 to + 10.1 min MVPA) elected to modify their program in more supportive ways. The statewide study demonstrated minimal improvements in overall MVPA. However, child MVPA was dramatically influenced by ASPs who elected to modify their daily program in more supportive than non-supportive ways, with no one program modifying their program consistently across the multi-year initiative. These findings have important implications for organizations seeking to achieve the MVPA standard. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT02394717 .

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Unknown 61 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Student > Master 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Researcher 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 25 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 13%
Social Sciences 8 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 11%
Sports and Recreations 7 11%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 27 44%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 18 August 2018.
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#7,514,350
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,919
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Outputs of similar age
#128,557
of 327,912 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#250
of 334 outputs
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