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Category: Analysis

Description: The importance of physical activity behaviours for mental and physical health and wellbeing over the lifespan is incontrovertible, yet physical inactivity is widespread and increasing. The ramifications of physical inactivity are greatest in the formative years, i.e., in childhood and adolescence, when lifestyle behaviours are formed and growing bodies and brains are most susceptible to lack of exercise. Integrating physical activity into children’s key behavioural settings, such as schools, is key, yet available interventions have shown little effect on the burden associated with physical inactivity. A cluster randomised wait list design will be used to evaluate the efficacy of an EOtC intervention that aims to increase adolescents’ (ages 10-16 years) school-based and overall PA by providing a course on the pedagogical and didactic methods of EOtC to teachers across 30 Danish schools, and subsequently the teachers implementing EOTC in their classes > 5 hours weekly over the course of one school year. We hypothesise that the intervention group will engage in more school-based and overall PA than the control group.