Masaaki Yamada, Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Tatsuse, Yukiko Asaka
Association between lifestyle, parental smoke, socioeconomic status, and academic performance in Japanese elementary school children: the Super Diet Education Project
Environmental health and preventive medicine
explore school student characteristics associated number physical education pe classes elementary students received determine whether characteristics amount pe associated physical activity pa levels elementary students multilevel modeling schoollevel n 30 studentlevel n 2447 questionnaire data playon study used explore school factors associated number pe classes students grades 5 8 report receiving factors associated pa theories organizational change served operationalize main school factors measured study included assessments organizational climate school practices related pe pa organizational capacity school ability provide students pe pa school pape policies number pe classes reported per week higher schools two pa facilities addition gymnasium 113 p 0048 schools greater levels parental involvement schoolbased pa decisions programs 206 p 0001 however students schools provided intramural programs reported fewer pe classes without 197 p lt 0001 number pe classes provided previous week associated greater odds students highly active compared minimally active 114 p 0003 organizational structural factors within school environment related amount pe students receive school strategies required resolve resulting inequities