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Activity Workstations in High Schools: Decreasing Sedentary Behavior Without Negatively Impacting Schoolwork

High school students are at risk for increased sedentary behavior due in part to a decrease in physical activity throughout adolescence and to required sedentary behavior during much of the school day. The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of using activity workstations in a high...

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Autores principales: Pilcher, June J., Hulett, Timothy L., Harrill, Paige S., Cashman, Jessie M., Hamilton, G. Lawson, Diaz, Eva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9263544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.929564
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author Pilcher, June J.
Hulett, Timothy L.
Harrill, Paige S.
Cashman, Jessie M.
Hamilton, G. Lawson
Diaz, Eva
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Hulett, Timothy L.
Harrill, Paige S.
Cashman, Jessie M.
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Diaz, Eva
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description High school students are at risk for increased sedentary behavior due in part to a decrease in physical activity throughout adolescence and to required sedentary behavior during much of the school day. The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of using activity workstations in a high school English class for struggling readers. Twenty high school students participated in the study. The participants completed a 16-week study where each participant used an activity workstation for 8 weeks and a traditional desk for 8 weeks in a crossover design for a 40-min period during normal class. They responded to a series of subjective questions about reading and schoolwork at the beginning and end of each 8-week session and followed the READ 180 program designed to help struggling readers during the study. The results indicated that academic performance increased in both desk conditions during the study and from the beginning to the end of the study. In addition, there was a significant improvement in items in the subjective survey related to reading, motivation, and schoolwork in both desk conditions across the study. The current results suggest that using an activity workstation in the classroom did not negatively affect academic performance or students’ perceptions of working on academic assignments compared to the traditional desk condition. These results indicate that activity workstations could be implemented in classrooms to provide students with a non-sedentary option during the school day thus increasing physical activity in students.
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spelling pubmed-92635442022-07-09 Activity Workstations in High Schools: Decreasing Sedentary Behavior Without Negatively Impacting Schoolwork Pilcher, June J. Hulett, Timothy L. Harrill, Paige S. Cashman, Jessie M. Hamilton, G. Lawson Diaz, Eva Front Psychol Psychology High school students are at risk for increased sedentary behavior due in part to a decrease in physical activity throughout adolescence and to required sedentary behavior during much of the school day. The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of using activity workstations in a high school English class for struggling readers. Twenty high school students participated in the study. The participants completed a 16-week study where each participant used an activity workstation for 8 weeks and a traditional desk for 8 weeks in a crossover design for a 40-min period during normal class. They responded to a series of subjective questions about reading and schoolwork at the beginning and end of each 8-week session and followed the READ 180 program designed to help struggling readers during the study. The results indicated that academic performance increased in both desk conditions during the study and from the beginning to the end of the study. In addition, there was a significant improvement in items in the subjective survey related to reading, motivation, and schoolwork in both desk conditions across the study. The current results suggest that using an activity workstation in the classroom did not negatively affect academic performance or students’ perceptions of working on academic assignments compared to the traditional desk condition. These results indicate that activity workstations could be implemented in classrooms to provide students with a non-sedentary option during the school day thus increasing physical activity in students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9263544/ /pubmed/35814117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.929564 Text en Copyright © 2022 Pilcher, Hulett, Harrill, Cashman, Hamilton and Diaz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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