Department for Physical Activity in Public Health, Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933, Cologne, Germany.
Academy of Public Health Services, Kanzerlstr. 4, 40472, Düsseldorf, Germany.
BMC Public Health. 2021 Apr 1;21(1):642. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10666-3.
The role of physical activity in the promotion of children's well-being and health is widely known. However, research indicates that the time spent physically exercising and participating in organized sport activities is decreasing among children. Although there is currently no gold standard for promoting sustainable physical activity in children, community-based approaches, particularly those that are multicomponent, appear to be the most successful. The project StuPs: a school- and community-based participatory approach for promoting physical activity in children and their families aims to develop a community-based approach to promoting physical activity by increasing physical literacy among elementary school children and their household members.
The project is built upon the intervention mapping approach and consists of two periods with an overall duration of 3 years. Period I will last 9 months and include an assessment of needs, wants, strengths, and weaknesses regarding physical activity and health promotion at the community- and school-based level according to the keywords "capacity building" and "physical literacy." Based on the knowledge gained in this stage, measures for capacity building to promote healthy lifestyles and physical literacy in children will be developed using the community-based participatory research and capacity building approach. In Period II, the measures will be applicated, implemented and evaluated using a pre-/post-design to assess efficacy.
Although the efficacy of using community-based and capacity building approaches to reach children is promising, there remains a gap regarding best practices for changing existing structures and habits over the long term and in the sense of promoting physical literacy.
身体活动在促进儿童福祉和健康方面的作用是众所周知的。然而，研究表明，儿童进行身体锻炼和参与有组织的体育活动的时间正在减少。尽管目前没有促进儿童可持续身体活动的黄金标准，但基于社区的方法，特别是多组分的方法，似乎是最成功的。StuPs 项目：一种基于学校和社区的促进儿童及其家庭身体活动的参与式方法，旨在通过提高小学生及其家庭成员的身体素养，开发一种基于社区的促进身体活动的方法。
该项目建立在干预映射方法的基础上，包括两个阶段，总持续时间为 3 年。第一阶段将持续 9 个月，根据“能力建设”和“身体素养”这两个关键词，评估社区和学校层面的身体活动和健康促进方面的需求、意愿、优势和劣势。在此阶段获得的知识的基础上，将利用基于社区的参与式研究和能力建设方法制定促进儿童健康生活方式和身体素养的能力建设措施。在第二阶段，将采用预/后设计来评估效果，应用、实施和评估这些措施。
尽管使用基于社区和能力建设的方法来接触儿童的效果是有希望的，但在长期和促进身体素养的意义上，改变现有结构和习惯的最佳实践仍然存在差距。
