FitSpirit, 141, rue Saint-Charles, Bureau 4, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, J7E 2A9, Canada.
École de kinésiologie et des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Downtown Station, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
BMC Public Health. 2021 Jan 28;21(1):229. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10200-5.
Worldwide, most adolescent girls do not meet physical activity (PA) recommendations and very few PA programs are tailored specifically towards them. Even fewer information exists about the long-term effects of such programs. Some Canadian schools have implemented the FitSpirit PA intervention designed specifically for girls aged 12 to 17 years old. This paper describes the protocol of a quasi-experimental study evaluating long-term changes in health behaviours and outcomes following FitSpirit participation.
The study is conducted among schools that partner with FitSpirit every year. It started in 2018 and will be completed in 2022. The intervention comprises motivational talks, a turnkey running program, PA sessions and special events. Study participants fill out an online questionnaire twice a year. Follow-up questionnaires are sent at the end of each school year to the study participants who dropout from FitSpirit. The main outcome, changes in PA levels, is evaluated using questions validated for adolescents. Secondary outcomes are health (perceived health); lifestyle habits (sedentary activities, eating and sleeping habits); psychosocial outcomes (physical self-efficacy and body satisfaction); and FitSpirit appreciation (activity participation and satisfaction). Most questions originate from questionnaires validated for the adolescent population. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses will be performed.
This study will provide one of the first longitudinal reports on the impact of a large extra-curricular PA intervention designed specifically for adolescent girls. The current study will uniquely contribute to PA research by assessing outcomes additional to PA levels, including markers of health, lifestyle habits and psychosocial determinants.
NCT, NCT03804151 , Registered on January 22, 2019; retrospectively registered.
在全球范围内，大多数青春期女孩都不符合身体活动（PA）的推荐标准，而且很少有专门针对她们的 PA 项目。关于这些项目的长期效果的信息就更少了。一些加拿大学校已经实施了专门为 12 至 17 岁女孩设计的 FitSpirit PA 干预措施。本文介绍了一项准实验研究的方案，该研究评估了 FitSpirit 参与后健康行为和结果的长期变化。
该研究在每年与 FitSpirit 合作的学校中进行。它始于 2018 年，将于 2022 年完成。该干预措施包括激励性演讲、现成的跑步计划、PA 课程和特别活动。研究参与者每年填写两次在线问卷。在每个学年结束时，向从 FitSpirit 辍学的研究参与者发送后续问卷。主要结果是 PA 水平的变化，使用针对青少年的经过验证的问题进行评估。次要结果是健康（感知健康）；生活方式习惯（久坐活动、饮食和睡眠习惯）；心理社会结果（身体自我效能和身体满意度）；以及 FitSpirit 欣赏（活动参与和满意度）。大多数问题来自针对青少年人口验证的问卷。将进行横断面和纵向分析。
这项研究将提供第一个关于专为青春期女孩设计的大型课外 PA 干预对 PA 的影响的长期报告之一。目前的研究将通过评估除 PA 水平以外的结果，包括健康、生活方式习惯和心理社会决定因素的指标，为 PA 研究做出独特的贡献。
NCT，NCT03804151，于 2019 年 1 月 22 日注册；回顾性注册。
