Evidence for the efficacy of the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention
| dc.contributor.author | O'Brien, Wesley | |
| dc.contributor.author | Issartel, Johann | |
| dc.contributor.author | Belton, Sarahjane | |
| dc.contributor.funder | Dublin City University | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Wicklow Local Sports Partnership | |
| dc.contributor.funder | County Wicklow Vocational Education Committee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-24T16:50:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-24T16:50:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-08-16 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-04-12T11:09:12Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The physical education environment is a key opportunity to intervene because of access to children and adolescents for the purpose of increasing physical activity participation and improving fundamental movement skill proficiency. A non-randomised controlled trial involving two schools in a rural Irish town was carried out in September 2011 to evaluate the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention. Data were collected on 12 to 14 year olds (n = 174) at 3 time points (pre, post and retention). Data collected included measured height and weight, physical activity measured by accelerometry and by self-report and fundamental movement skill performance. Both the control and intervention school showed significant increases in daily physical activity and gross motor skill proficiency over time. Two-way repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant interaction effect between school attended and time for physical activity (F (2, 38) = 6.177, p = .005) and fundamental movement skills (F (2, 100) = 4.132, p = .019), with a significantly greater increase in physical activity and fundamental movement skills observed in the intervention school. Preliminary findings from this study suggest a positive effect for the Y-PATH intervention and provide support for its potential in increasing physical activity and fundamental movement skill levels of adolescent youth. Further research involving a definitive randomised controlled trial with a larger sample size is warranted. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | O'Brien, W., Issartel, J. and Belton, S. (2013) 'Evidence for the efficacy of the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention', Advances in Physical Education, 3(4), pp. 145-153. doi:10.4236/ape.2013.34024 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.4236/ape.2013.34024 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 153 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2164-0386 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 4 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Advances in Physical Education | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 145 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3883 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 3 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Scientific Research Publishing | en |
| dc.rights | © 2013, the Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Physical education | en |
| dc.subject | Adolescent | en |
| dc.subject | Physical activity | en |
| dc.subject | Fundamental movement skills | en |
| dc.subject | Intervention | en |
| dc.title | Evidence for the efficacy of the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
