Get Fit with the Grizzlies: A Community-School-Home Initiative to Fight Childhood Obesity

Autor/inn/en	Irwin, Carol C.; Irwin, Richard L.; Miller, Maureen E.; Somes, Grant W.; Richey, Phyllis A.
Titel	Get Fit with the Grizzlies: A Community-School-Home Initiative to Fight Childhood Obesity
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 80 (2010) 7, S.333-339 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Obesity; Intervention; Physical Activities; Health Behavior; Behavior Modification; Children; Program Effectiveness; School Districts; Behavior Change; Physical Fitness; Team Sports; Surveys; Grade 4; Grade 5; Program Evaluation; Pretests Posttests; Health Education; Health Promotion; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Adipositas; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; School district; Schulbezirk; Leistungsfähigkeit; Mannschaftssport; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung
Abstract	Background: Professional sport organizations in the United States have notable celebrity status, and several teams have used this "star power" to collaborate with local school districts toward the goal of affecting children's health. Program effectiveness is unknown due to the absence of comprehensive evaluations for these initiatives. The Memphis Grizzlies, the city's National Basketball Association franchise, launched "Get Fit with the Grizzlies," a 6-week, curricular addition focusing on nutrition and physical activity for the fourth and fifth grades in Memphis City Schools (MCS). The health-infused mini-unit was delivered by physical education teachers during their classes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the "Get Fit" program effectiveness. Methods: Survey research was employed which measured health knowledge acquisition and health behavior change using a matched pre/posttest design in randomly chosen schools (n = 11) from all elementary schools in the MCS system (N = 110). The total number of matched pre/posttests (n = 888) equaled approximately 5% of the total fourth-/fifth-grade population. McNemar's test for significance (p less than 0.05) was applied. Odds ratios were calculated for each question. Results: Analyses confirmed that there was significant health knowledge acquisition (7 of 8 questions) with odds ratios confirming moderate to strong associations. Seven out of 10 health behavior change questions significantly improved after intervention, whereas odds ratios indicated a low level of association after intervention. Conclusions: This community-school-home initiative using a professional team's celebrity platform within a certain locale is largely overlooked by school districts and should be considered as a positive strategy to confront childhood obesity. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10