How effective are current school-based approaches to increase children’s physical activity?
Most attempts to increase physical activity among children and young people have been delivered at the school site, as schools provide opportunities to implement universal public health interventions to large numbers of children (One way that context can impact on school-based research is the provision of outcome data. For example, the adherence to accelerometer wear time protocols has been identified as a moderator of whether a study reported a positive effect, with poor measurement adherence more likely in disadvantaged schools (