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Playground Designs to Increase Physical Activity Levels During School Recess: A Systematic Review

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Escalante, Yolanda, García-Hermoso, Antonio, Backx, Karianne, Saavedra, Jose M.·2014·Health Education & Behavior

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School recess provides a major opportunity to increase children's physical activity levels. Various studies have described strategies to increase levels of physical activity. The purpose of this systematic review is therefore to examine the interventions proposed as forms of increasing children's physical activity levels during recess. A systematic search of seven databases was made from the July 1 to July 5, 2012, leading to a final set of eight studies (a total of 2,383 subjects-599 "preschoolers" and 1,784 "schoolchildren") meeting the inclusion criteria. These studies were classified according to the intervention used: playground markings, game equipment, playground markings plus physical structures, and playground markings plus game equipment. The results of these studies indicate that the strategies analyzed do have the potential to increase physical activity levels during recess. The cumulative evidence was (a) that interventions based on playground markings, game equipment, or a combination of the two, do not seem to increase the physical activity of preschoolers and schoolchildren during recess and (ii) that interventions based on playground markings plus physical structures do increase the physical activity of schoolchildren during recess in the short to medium term.

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Authors: Escalante, Y., García-Hermoso, A., Backx, K., & Saavedra, J. M.
Affiliations: Universidad de Extremadura (ES)
Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
Cardiff Metropolitan University (GB)
ORCID: Backx, Karianne
Venue: Health Education & Behavior
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-07-08
Volume: 41
Issue: 2
Pages: 138-144
ISSN: 1090-1981 (ISSN-L)
1552-6127
DOI: 10.1177/1090198113490725
OpenAlex: W2019055915
Cited by: 132
References: 34
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 1
FWCI: 0.88
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Health Education & Behavior (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Academica-e (Universidad Pública de Navarra) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › School Health and Nursing Education
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Keywords: recess, children's physical activity, playground design, game equipment, physical activity interventions, preschool children, elementary school students, built environment
MeSH terms: Child, Child, Preschool, Environment Design, Female, Humans, Male, Motor Activity, Physical Education and Training, Play and Playthings, Schools, Time Factors, Databases, Bibliographic

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