Sonal Batra, Julie Orban, Shalini Raichur, Nicholas Jennings, Charmi Trivedi, Nehal Naik, Colleen Bogucki, Yolanda Haywood
Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Medical School Diversity Pathway Programs
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school system one setting childrens physical activity levels may increased daily physical activity dpa policies initiatives adherence dpa policies typically poor results limited regard associated benefits participating children therefore purpose study evaluate range psychosocial outcomes following communityled inschool dpa initiative 914 year old children youth program evaluation examined impact dpa program consisting 20 min teacherled dpa 20 consecutive weeks student outcomes measured using questionnaire administered three time points baseline midintervention postintervention teacher questionnaire regarding program adherence student behaviour completed postintervention mixed effects models used test intervention effects random intercepts students classes schools well fixed effects age sex due large number outcomes measured first conducted omnibus test intervention effect followed three exploratory analyses examining outcome separately associations outcomes program adherence results teacher survey thirty classes n 19 experimental 7 schools participated study total 362 children n 265 experimental significant overall effect intervention z 089 p 038 exploratory analyses demonstrated significant differences selfesteem subjective happiness control group slightly increasing relative experimental group teacherreported adherence program poor 21 teachers adhering program association overall adherence student reported outcomes however positive correlations present adherence teacherreported student behaviour dpa program evaluated improve psychosocial wellbeing elementary schoolaged children usual practices however adherence program poor negative effect students future work needed best support dpa implementation context school day student wellbeing may positively impacted schoolbased physical activity program evaluation inschool daily physical activity initiative nct03618927 august 6 2018 retrospectively registered