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Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country
This paper assesses the potential cohesion effect of a physical activity (PA) school-based intervention potentiated using text messages (SMS) through analyzing longitudinally the friendship network structure and the mechanisms of the formation and dissolution of friendships. Three schools (n = 125 p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32796502 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165796 |
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author | Guerra, Ana M. Montes, Felipe Useche, Andrés F. Jaramillo, Ana María González, Silvia A. Meisel, Jose D. Obando, Catalina Cardozo, Valentina Hunter, Ruth F. Sarmiento, Olga L. |
author_facet | Guerra, Ana M. Montes, Felipe Useche, Andrés F. Jaramillo, Ana María González, Silvia A. Meisel, Jose D. Obando, Catalina Cardozo, Valentina Hunter, Ruth F. Sarmiento, Olga L. |
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description | This paper assesses the potential cohesion effect of a physical activity (PA) school-based intervention potentiated using text messages (SMS) through analyzing longitudinally the friendship network structure and the mechanisms of the formation and dissolution of friendships. Three schools (n = 125 participants) in Bogotá, Colombia, were randomly assigned into three groups: Modulo Activo Recreo Activo (MARA) + SMS (networks 1 and 2), MARA (networks 3 and 4), and control (no intervention: networks 5–7). We collected socio-economic, health-related, network structure, and intervention satisfaction variables in the baseline and after 10 weeks on July–November 2013. For each classroom network, we conducted four models using a temporal and static network approach to assess (1) temporal social network changes, (2) friendship homophily, (3) friendship formation and dissolution mechanisms, and (4) effect of SMS on the networks’ cohesion. We found that (1) social cohesion emerged in the four intervened networks that were measured over time with transitivity and homophily driven by clustering, (2) the intervention affected the mechanisms of friendship formation and dissolution, and (3) MARA + SMS on average created more social cohesion and 3.8 more friendships than the program alone. Potentially, school-based interventions with information and communication technologies (ICT) such as MARA + SMS could encourage social cohesion among children. The particular characteristics of each school network need to be considered when developing school-based interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-74596962020-09-02 Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country Guerra, Ana M. Montes, Felipe Useche, Andrés F. Jaramillo, Ana María González, Silvia A. Meisel, Jose D. Obando, Catalina Cardozo, Valentina Hunter, Ruth F. Sarmiento, Olga L. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This paper assesses the potential cohesion effect of a physical activity (PA) school-based intervention potentiated using text messages (SMS) through analyzing longitudinally the friendship network structure and the mechanisms of the formation and dissolution of friendships. Three schools (n = 125 participants) in Bogotá, Colombia, were randomly assigned into three groups: Modulo Activo Recreo Activo (MARA) + SMS (networks 1 and 2), MARA (networks 3 and 4), and control (no intervention: networks 5–7). We collected socio-economic, health-related, network structure, and intervention satisfaction variables in the baseline and after 10 weeks on July–November 2013. For each classroom network, we conducted four models using a temporal and static network approach to assess (1) temporal social network changes, (2) friendship homophily, (3) friendship formation and dissolution mechanisms, and (4) effect of SMS on the networks’ cohesion. We found that (1) social cohesion emerged in the four intervened networks that were measured over time with transitivity and homophily driven by clustering, (2) the intervention affected the mechanisms of friendship formation and dissolution, and (3) MARA + SMS on average created more social cohesion and 3.8 more friendships than the program alone. Potentially, school-based interventions with information and communication technologies (ICT) such as MARA + SMS could encourage social cohesion among children. The particular characteristics of each school network need to be considered when developing school-based interventions. MDPI 2020-08-11 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7459696/ /pubmed/32796502 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165796 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Guerra, Ana M. Montes, Felipe Useche, Andrés F. Jaramillo, Ana María González, Silvia A. Meisel, Jose D. Obando, Catalina Cardozo, Valentina Hunter, Ruth F. Sarmiento, Olga L. Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title | Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title_full | Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title_fullStr | Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title_short | Effects of a Physical Activity Program Potentiated with ICTs on the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Networks of Children in a Middle-Income Country |
title_sort | effects of a physical activity program potentiated with icts on the formation and dissolution of friendship networks of children in a middle-income country |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32796502 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165796 |
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