Impact of Weight Status on the Cardiopulmonary Fitness Outcome of a School-Based Physical Activity Program

Autor/inn/en	Moon, Rena C.; Cunningham, Solveig A.; Gazmararian, Julie
Titel	Impact of Weight Status on the Cardiopulmonary Fitness Outcome of a School-Based Physical Activity Program
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 90 (2020) 10, S.762-770 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Moon, Rena C.) ORCID (Gazmararian, Julie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/josh.12936
Schlagwörter	Body Weight; Human Body; Physical Fitness; Physical Activities; Program Effectiveness; Grade 4; Elementary School Students; Learner Engagement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpergewicht; Menschlicher Körper; Leistungsfähigkeit; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04
Abstract	Background: The effectiveness of school-based physical activity interventions for improving cardiopulmonary fitness (CPF) of overweight and obese children is not well established. In this study, we evaluated whether overweight and obese children had similar changes in body mass index (BMI) and CPF as normal weight children after participating in a program for one academic year. Methods: Using purposive sampling at the school level, we selected 16 program and 7 control schools in a large metropolitan area in the Southeast during the 2015-2016 academic year. In these schools, 3396 fourth-graders participated with parental consent. Of these, 2332 (68.7%) participated in BMI measures and 1780 (52.4%) in Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) measures for CPF at two time points. Results: Students of all weight statuses pre-program did not show changes in BMI after program implementation. All students showed statistically significant improvements in the PACER test at follow-up, regardless of their participation in the program. However, overweight and obese children showed less improvement in CPF level than their normal weight classmates, regardless of their participation in the program. Conclusion: Special attention for improving engagements of overweight and obese children may be needed to achieve improvements in their CPF level similar to that of normal weight students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01