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Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school
BACKGROUND: It is important to quickly and efficiently identify policies that are effective at changing behavior; therefore, we must be able to quantify and evaluate the effect of those policies and of changes to those policies. The purpose of this study was to develop state-level physical education...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3711838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23815860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-10-86 |
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author | Hales, Derek Stevens, June Murray, David M Taber, Dan R Roberts, Amy |
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description | BACKGROUND: It is important to quickly and efficiently identify policies that are effective at changing behavior; therefore, we must be able to quantify and evaluate the effect of those policies and of changes to those policies. The purpose of this study was to develop state-level physical education (PE) and physical activity (PA) policy domain scores at the high-school level. Policy domain scores were developed with a focus on measuring policy change. METHODS: Exploratory factor analysis was used to group items from the state-level School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) into policy domains. Items that related to PA or PE at the High School level were identified from the 7 SHPPS health program surveys. Data from 2000 and 2006 were used in the factor analysis. RESULTS: From the 98 items identified, 17 policy domains were extracted. Average policy domain change scores were positive for 12 policy domains, with the largest increases for “Discouraging PA as Punishment”, “Collaboration”, and “Staff Development Opportunities”. On average, states increased scores in 4.94 ± 2.76 policy domains, decreased in 3.53 ± 2.03, and had no change in 7.69 ± 2.09 policy domains. Significant correlations were found between several policy domain scores. CONCLUSIONS: Quantifying policy change and its impact is integral to the policy making and revision process. Our results build on previous research offering a way to examine changes in state-level policies related to PE and PA of high-school students and the faculty and staff who serve them. This work provides methods for combining state-level policies relevant to PE or PA in youth for studies of their impact. |
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spelling | pubmed-37118382013-07-16 Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school Hales, Derek Stevens, June Murray, David M Taber, Dan R Roberts, Amy Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: It is important to quickly and efficiently identify policies that are effective at changing behavior; therefore, we must be able to quantify and evaluate the effect of those policies and of changes to those policies. The purpose of this study was to develop state-level physical education (PE) and physical activity (PA) policy domain scores at the high-school level. Policy domain scores were developed with a focus on measuring policy change. METHODS: Exploratory factor analysis was used to group items from the state-level School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) into policy domains. Items that related to PA or PE at the High School level were identified from the 7 SHPPS health program surveys. Data from 2000 and 2006 were used in the factor analysis. RESULTS: From the 98 items identified, 17 policy domains were extracted. Average policy domain change scores were positive for 12 policy domains, with the largest increases for “Discouraging PA as Punishment”, “Collaboration”, and “Staff Development Opportunities”. On average, states increased scores in 4.94 ± 2.76 policy domains, decreased in 3.53 ± 2.03, and had no change in 7.69 ± 2.09 policy domains. Significant correlations were found between several policy domain scores. CONCLUSIONS: Quantifying policy change and its impact is integral to the policy making and revision process. Our results build on previous research offering a way to examine changes in state-level policies related to PE and PA of high-school students and the faculty and staff who serve them. This work provides methods for combining state-level policies relevant to PE or PA in youth for studies of their impact. BioMed Central 2013-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3711838/ /pubmed/23815860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-10-86 Text en Copyright © 2013 Hales et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Hales, Derek Stevens, June Murray, David M Taber, Dan R Roberts, Amy Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title | Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title_full | Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title_fullStr | Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title_short | Identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
title_sort | identifying state-level policy and provision domains for physical education and physical activity in high school |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3711838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23815860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-10-86 |
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