

walking school bus), extracurricular activities (e.g. These include the school environment (healthy eating posters), scheduled Physical Education, classroom action, family and community (e.g. Intervention: Action Schools! BC is a comprehensive, multicomponent intervention providing tools for schools and teachers to use in promoting physical activity and healthy eating in different settings. Reasons for attrition: Children moved schools or were absent on the day of testing (5 times higher in intervention than control school), school chose not to send participants` test results to the CAT‐3 test centre for scoring (control school), school administered the wrong test at follow‐up (intervention school)Ĭomparison: Action Schools! BC versus standard practice Sex: Intervention group: 48% female, control group 19% femaleĮthnicity: Not reported for subgroup with obesity N (analysed): 73 (52 intervention, 21 control)Īge range: 9 ‐ 11 years (4th and 5th grades), mean age: 10.1 ± 0.6 years N (randomly assigned): 103 (78 intervention, 25 control) N schools: 8 (6 intervention schools, 2 control schools)Įxclusion criteria: "school already undertaking a school‐based physical activity program"Ĭlassification of weight status: CDC BMI‐for‐age growth charts


Unit of randomisation: Schools, stratified by size and geographical location.
#MAPA RBR 4.1 GRATIS TRIAL#
Study design: Cluster‐randomised controlled trial
