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Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts
BACKGROUND: Physical activity has been associated with many benefits throughout the life course. As levels of physical activity appear to be insufficient in large populations, the development of effective interventions to promote or maintain activity levels in young people are therefore of key publi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26892920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-016-0348-z |
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author | van Sluijs, Esther M. F. Kriemler, Susi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Physical activity has been associated with many benefits throughout the life course. As levels of physical activity appear to be insufficient in large populations, the development of effective interventions to promote or maintain activity levels in young people are therefore of key public health concern. Physical activity intervention research in young people is challenging, but this should not be a reason to continue conducting inferior quality evaluations. This paper highlights some of the key issues that require more careful and consistent consideration to enable future research to achieve meaningful impact. DISCUSSION: This paper critically evaluates, amongst others, current research practice regarding intervention development, targeting, active involvement of the target population, challenge of recruitment and retention, measurement and evaluation protocols, long-term follow-up, economic evaluation, process evaluation, and publication. It argues that funders and researchers should collaborate to ensure high quality long-term evaluations are prioritised and that a trial’s success should be defined by its quality, not its achieved effect. SUMMARY: The conduct and publication of well-designed evaluations of well-defined interventions is crucial to advance the field of youth physical activity promotion and make us better understand which intervention strategies may or may not work, why, and for whom. |
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spelling | pubmed-47579752016-02-19 Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts van Sluijs, Esther M. F. Kriemler, Susi Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Debate BACKGROUND: Physical activity has been associated with many benefits throughout the life course. As levels of physical activity appear to be insufficient in large populations, the development of effective interventions to promote or maintain activity levels in young people are therefore of key public health concern. Physical activity intervention research in young people is challenging, but this should not be a reason to continue conducting inferior quality evaluations. This paper highlights some of the key issues that require more careful and consistent consideration to enable future research to achieve meaningful impact. DISCUSSION: This paper critically evaluates, amongst others, current research practice regarding intervention development, targeting, active involvement of the target population, challenge of recruitment and retention, measurement and evaluation protocols, long-term follow-up, economic evaluation, process evaluation, and publication. It argues that funders and researchers should collaborate to ensure high quality long-term evaluations are prioritised and that a trial’s success should be defined by its quality, not its achieved effect. SUMMARY: The conduct and publication of well-designed evaluations of well-defined interventions is crucial to advance the field of youth physical activity promotion and make us better understand which intervention strategies may or may not work, why, and for whom. BioMed Central 2016-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4757975/ /pubmed/26892920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-016-0348-z Text en © van Sluijs and Kriemler. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Debate van Sluijs, Esther M. F. Kriemler, Susi Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title | Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title_full | Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title_fullStr | Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title_full_unstemmed | Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title_short | Reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
title_sort | reflections on physical activity intervention research in young people – dos, don’ts, and critical thoughts |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26892920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-016-0348-z |
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