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16-02

A new injury prevention programme for children’s football – FIFA 11+ Kids – can improve motor performance

16-01 Parental Involvement in a School-Based Child Physical Activity and Nutrition Program in Southeastern United States
16-01 Individual and School-Level Socioeconomic Gradients in Physical Activity in Australian Schoolchildren.
16-01 Effects of Motor versus Cardiovascular Exercise Training on Children's Working Memory.
16-01 Family-based interventions to increase physical activity in children
16-01 PE and sport premium: an investigation in primary schools
16-01 Integrating key competences in school physical education programmes
16-01

Healthy Pokes: After-school Education and Mentoring to Enhance Child Health

16-01 The Moderating Effect of Physical Activity on the Association Between ADHD Symptoms and Peer Victimization in Middle Childhood
16-01 Promoting Physical Activity With the Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative
15-12 Health-related physical fitness is associated with total and central body fat in preschool children aged 3 to 5 years
15-12 Promoting Physical Activity With the Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity (OSNAP) Initiative
15-12 Do Interventions to Increase Walking Work?
15-11 Independent Associations of Organized Physical Activity and Weight Status with Children’s Cognitive Functioning
15-11

Relations among basic psychological needs, PE-motivation and fundamental movement skills in 9–12-year-old boys and girls in Physical Education

15-11 Decline in objective physical activity over a 10-year period in a Japanese elementary school
15-11 Physical Activity Intensity, Lesson Context, and Teacher Interactions During an Unstructured Afterschool Physical Activity Program
15-10 Effect on Physical Activity of a Randomized Afterschool Intervention for Inner City Children in 3rd to 5th Grade.
15-10 Impact of prolonged sitting on vascular function in young girls
15-10 Play : a report by the all-party parliamentary group on a fit and healthy childhood
15-10 Associations between the neighbourhood built environment and out of school physical activity and active travel
15-10 Implementing classroom physical activity breaks: Associations with student physical activity and classroom behavior
15-10 Parental views of children’s physical activity: a qualitative study with parents from multi-ethnic backgrounds living in England
15-09 Miles ahead: school that fired starting gun on running revolution
15-09 Measuring the impact of outdoor learning on the physical activity of school age children: The use of accelerometry
15-09 Within- and between-day associations between children’s sitting and physical activity time
15-09 Acceptability and Potential Efficacy of Single-Sex After-School Activity Programs for Overweight and At-Risk Children
15-09 The influence of club football on children’s daily physical activity
15-09

Can ‘English Premier League’ funding for PE and school sport achieve its aims?

15-09 Do specific parenting practices and related parental self-efficacy associate with physical activity and screen time among primary schoolchildren?
15-08 Variability and Stability in Daily Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity among 10 Year Old Children
15-08 Associations between Active Commuting to School and Health-Related Physical Fitness in Spanish School-Aged Children
15-08 Organized Sport Participation Is Associated with Higher Levels of Overall Health-Related Physical Activity in Children
15-08 Active Transport, Physical Activity, and Distance Between Home and School in Children and Adolescents
15-07 Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture
15-07 Associations Between Parental Perceptions of the Neighbourhood Environment and Childhood Physical Activity
15-07 Sport participation, screen time, and personality trait development during childhood
15-07 Effect of Taekwondo Training on Physical Fitness and Growth Index According to IGF-1 Gene Polymorphism in Children
15-07 An effect of physical activity-based recreation programs on children’s optimism, humor styles, and school life adjustment
15-07 Can physical education and physical activity outcomes be developed simultaneously using a game-centered approach?
15-07 Change4Life: evidence review on physical activity in children
15-07 Associations Between Extracurricular Activity and Self-Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From 5 to 10 Years of Age
15-06 Children’s physical activity levels during primary school break times
15-06 The association between the parental perception of the physical neighborhood environment and children’s location-specific physical activity
15-06 What is the Relationship between Risky Outdoor Play and Health in Children?
15-06 Child fitness falls further than feared
15-06 Social and Environmental Factors Related to Boys’ and Girls’ Park-Based Physical Activity
15-06 "Should I let my child take more risks?"
15-06 "We're not saying video games should replace outdoor play, but …"
15-06 Reducing children's classroom sitting time using sit-to-stand desks: findings from pilot studies in UK and Australian primary schools
15-05 Using Virtual Pets to Promote Physical Activity in Children
15-05 Does playing a sports active video game improve young children's ball skill competence?
15-05 Empowering Young Children: Multi-Method Exploration of Young Children’s Preference for Natural or Manufactured Elements in Outdoor Preschool Settings
15-05 Modelling the contribution of walking between home and school to daily physical activity in primary age children
15-04 The contribution of organised sports to physical activity in Australia: Results and directions from the Active Healthy Kids Australia 2014 Report Card on physical activity for children and young people
15-04 Improving Academic Performance of School-Age Children by Physical Activity in the Classroom: 1-Year Program Evaluation
15-04 Association between participation in outdoor play and sport at 10 years old with physical activity in adulthood
15-04 A randomized controlled design investigating the effects of classroom-based physical activity on children’s fluid intelligence and achievement
15-04 Promoting physical activity for children and young people : Evidence Update March 2015
15-04 Effects of two physical education programmes on health- and skill-related physical fitness of Albanian children
15-04 The Tipping Point: confidence and attitudes in seven and eight year old girls
15-04 Vigorous physical activity rather than sedentary behaviour predicts overweight and obesity in pubertal boys: A 2-year follow-up study
15-04 Gaining insights into young people's playful wellbeing in woodland through art-based action research
15-03 Research into the impact of Bikeability training on children's ability to percieve and appropriately respond to hazards when cycling on the road
15-03 Aerobic Fitness, Micronutrient Status, and Academic Achievement in Indian School-Aged Children
15-03 A longitudinal study of bone area, content, density, and strength development at the radius and tibia in children 4-12 years of age exposed to recreational gymnastics
15-03 Effect of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program on School Day Step Counts in Children
15-03 Intensity- and Domain-specific Levels of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in 10-14 Year-old Children
15-03 More children more active: Tailored playgrounds positively affect physical activity levels amongst youth
15-03 Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Obesity in an International Sample of Children
15-03 Community led active schools programme (CLASP) exploring the implementation of health interventions in primary schools: headteachers’ perspectives
15-03 Organizing “Play Streets” during school vacations can increase physical activity and decrease sedentary time in children
15-03 Children's active commuting to school: an interplay of self-efficacy, social economic disadvantage, and environmental characteristics.
15-03 Correlates of habitual physical activity and organized sports in German primary school children
15-03 Increasing girls’ physical activity during a short-term organized youth sport basketball program: A randomized controlled trial
15-03 A new website has been launched to help primary schools recruit and develop sports coaches
15-01 Knowing in primary physical education in the UK: negotiating movement culture
15-01 Physical education or playtime: which is more effective at promoting physical activity in primary school children?
15-01 YST National PE, School Sport and Physical Activity Survey Report
15-01 Daily Physical Activity and Screen Time, but Not Other Sedentary Activities, Are Associated with Measures of Obesity during Childhood in Malaysia
15-01 Cognitive and physiological effects of an acute physical activity intervention in elementary school children
15-01 Regional differences of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in Swiss children are not explained by socio-demographics or the built environment
15-01 Does teaching children to swim increase exposure to water or risk-taking when in the water? Emerging evidence from Bangladesh
15-01 Physical Activity Opportunities in Afterschool Programs
15-01 Effectiveness of a school-based physical activity intervention on obesity in school children
15-01 Prevalence of exercise-induced cough in schoolchildren
15-01 Daily Exercises and Education for Preventing Low Back Pain in Children
15-01 Nasal and bronchial response to exercise in children with seasonal allergic rhinitis out of the pollen season
15-01 A longitudinal study of the distance that young people walk to school
15-01 Motor Performance as Predictor of Physical Activity in Children: The CHAMPS Study
14-12 Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trials of the Girls on the Go! Program to Improve Self-Esteem in Girls
14-12 Social inequalities in young children’s sports participation and outdoor play
14-12 Morning Exercise Beneficial to Students
14-12 Schools and "low-level" activity
14-12 The Relationship Among Playground Areas and Physical Activity Levels in Children
14-11 Longitudinal changes of cycling peak power in overweight and normal weight boys
14-11 Elementary students' physical activity and enjoyment during active video gaming and a modified tennis activity.
14-11 An Examination of Four Traditional School Physical Activity Models on Children's Step Counts and MVPA
14-11 Impact of a sports program on the functional abilities of children aged 5 to 6 years
14-11 Relationship Between Motivation and Learning in Physical Education and After-School Physical Activity
14-11 Physical Activity Practices in Elementary Schools and Associations With Physical Education Staffing and Training
14-11 An Examination of Four Traditional School Physical Activity Models on Children's Step Counts and MVPA
14-11 Child Pedestrian - Motor Vehicle Collisions and Walking to School in the City of Toronto: The Role of the Built Environment
14-11 Environmental influences on children's physical activity
14-10 Better Together: Outcomes of Cooperation Versus Competition in Social Exergaming
14-10 Physical fitness and academic performance in primary school children with and without a social disadvantage
14-10 Morning Exercise Beneficial to Students
14-09 Associations between daily physical activity and executive functioning in primary school-aged children
14-09 Randomised feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 9 to 11 year olds
14-09 Does exercise habit strength moderate the relationship between emotional distress and short-term memory in Malaysian primary school children?
14-09 Academic Achievement and High Fitness Levels
14-09 Developmental differences between boys and girls results in sex-specific physical fitness changes from fourth to fifth grade
14-09 Extracurricular physical and sports activities in elementary students: the case of Alicante
14-09 Examining elementary school children’s level of enjoyment of traditional tag games vs. interactive dance games
14-09 Osteogenic effects of a physical activity intervention in South African black children
14-09 Developmental differences between boys and girls results in sex-specific physical fitness changes from fourth to fifth grade.
14-09 Promoting physical activity in Hong Kong Chinese young people
14-09 Relationship of childhood headaches with preferences in leisure time activities, depression, anxiety and eating habits
14-09 Impact of a pilot pharmacy health-care professional out-of-school time physical activity and nutrition education program with exercise on fourth and fifth graders in a rural Texas community
14-09 Parents’ perception of their influence on their child’s physical activity
14-09 Physical fitness and academic performance in primary school children with and without a social disadvantage
14-09 A short physical activity break from cognitive tasks increases selective attention in primary school children aged 10–11
14-09 Is change in environmental supportiveness between primary and secondary school associated with a decline in children׳s physical activity levels?
14-09 An in-school exercise intervention to enhance bone and reduce fat in girls: The CAPO Kids trial
14-09 Not Just “A Walking the Dog”: Dog Walking and Pet Play and Their Association With Recommended Physical Activity Among Adolescents
14-09 Physical activity patterns of ethnic children from low socio-economic environments within the UK
14-09 Physical activity – academic achievement: student and teacher perspectives on the ‘new’ nexus
14-09 Do Coaches Perceive Themselves as Influential on Physical Activity for Girls in Organised Youth Sport?
14-09 A 30-Year Journey of Monitoring Fitness and Skill Outcomes in Physical Education
14-08 Does a player whose ball juggling skill is the best shows the best ability in a soccer game?
14-08 Physical activity differences between children from migrant and native origin
14-08 A repeated measurement study investigating the impact of school outdoor environment upon physical activity across ages and seasons in Swedish second, fifth and eighth graders
14-07 Physical Fitness, Obesity, and Academic Achievement in Schoolchildren
14-06 Formative evaluation of a UK community-based sports intervention to prevent smoking among children and young people: SmokeFree Sports
14-06 The effects of individual, family and environmental factors on physical activity levels in children
14-06 Premature return to play and return to learn after a sport-related concussion: Physician's chart review
14-06 Effect of living area and sports club participation on physical fitness in children: a 4 year longitudinal study
14-06 The child and adolescent athlete: a review of three potentially serious injuries
14-06 Are We Driving Our Kids to Unhealthy Habits? Results of the Active Healthy Kids Canada 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
14-06 Maternal Physical Activity During Pregnancy, Child Leisure-Time Activity, and Child Weight Status at 3-9 Years
14-06 The Effect of Green Exercise on Blood Pressure, Heart Rate and Mood State in Primary School Children
14-06 Factors Influencing Break-Time Physical Activity of South African Primary School Learners From Low-Income Communities
14-06 Primary physical education perspective on creativity: the nature of creativity and creativity fostering classroom environment
14-06 The effects of physical activity on children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
14-06 Physical, Policy, and Sociocultural Characteristics of the Primary School Environment are Positively Associated With Children’s Physical Activity During Class Time
14-06 Developing Students' Emotional Well-being in Physical Education
14-06 Children’s exercise behavior: The moderating role of habit processes within the theory of planned behavior
14-06 Associations between sports participation and psychological difficulties during childhood: A two-year follow up
14-06 Physical activity temporal trends amongst children and adolescents
14-06 Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial
14-05 Do school-based physical activity interventions increase or reduce inequalities in health?
14-05 Examining the Impact of the Walking School Bus With an Agent-Based Model
14-05 Normal biomechanical values of walking for healthy Saudi children in Riyadh city
14-05 Low-income children feel safer walking/biking to school
14-04 Activity levels in mothers and their 4 yr-old children
14-03 Who children spend time with after school: associations with objectively recorded indoor and outdoor physical activity
14-03 Sports Participation and Parent-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Children
14-03 Playing for health? Revisiting health promotion to examine the emerging public health position on children's play
14-03 Changes in physical activity during the transition from primary to secondary school in Belgian children: what is the role of the school environment? (pdf)
14-03 Cycling: health and risk factors
14-03 Can Exergames Impart Health Messages? Game Play, Framing, and Drivers of Physical Activity Among Children
14-03 Effect of physical activity on vascular characteristics in young children
14-03 Are field-based exergames useful in preventing childhood obesity? A systematic review
14-03 Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and clustered cardiometabolic risk in 10- to 12-year-old school children: The REACH Y6 study
14-03 Correlates of urban children's leisure-time physical activity and sedentary behaviors during school days
14-03 Is overweight a risk factor for sports injuries in children, adolescents, and young adults?
14-03 The effects of playground markings on the physical self-perceptions of 10–11-year-old school children
14-03 Heart rate response and fitness effects of various types of physical education for 8- to 9-year-old schoolchildren
14-03 Exploring ‘what’ to learn in physical education
14-03 Primary School Sport Project - Engage to Compete (pdf)
14-03 A Systematic Review of the Literature on Screening for Exercise-Induced Asthma: Considerations for School Nurses
14-03 Walking to School: The Experience of Children in Inner City Los Angeles and Implications for Policy
14-03 Predictors of meeting physical activity and fruit and vegetable recommendations in 9–11-year-old children
14-03 Constructing cardiovascular fitness knowledge in physical education
14-01 What helps children to move more at school recess and lunchtime?
14-01 Prospective association of adiposity and cardiorespiratory fitness with cardiovascular risk factors in healthy children
14-01 Intrinsic Effects of Physical Activity on Self-Concept and Academic Achievement Esteem of Preadolescents 
14-01 School sports and identity formation: Socialisation or selection?
14-01 Beyond the Gym: Increasing Outside of School Physical Activity through Physical Education
14-01 Competing for ideal bodies: a study of exergames used as teaching aids in schools
14-01 ‘Walking … just walking’: how children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter
14-01 Guidelines for Youth Sports Clubs to Develop, Implement, and Assess Health Promotion Within Its Activities
14-01 Examining primary schools' physical education coordinators' pedagogical content knowledge of games: are we just playing as this?
13-12 Effectiveness and feasibility of lowering playground density during recess to promote physical activity and decrease sedentary time at primary school (pdf)
13-12 School travel and children's physical activity: a cross-sectional study examining the influence of distance (pdf)
13-12 Effect of rope skipping on social skills and academic performance on elementary students (pdf)
13-12 Fatness predicts decreased physical activity and increased sedentary time, but not vice versa: support from a longitudinal study in 8-11 year old children
Education, Exercise
15-11 Does More Centrally Located School Promote Walking to School? Spatial Centrality in School-Neighborhood Settings.
15-11 Localization of Physical Activity in Primary School Children Using Accelerometry and Global Positioning System
14-12 The importance of physical activity and aerobic fitness for cognitive control and memory in children
14-12 Enhanced academic performance using a novel classroom physical activity intervention to increase awareness, attention and self-control: Putting embodied cognition into practice
14-12 Fit to Focus: Measuring the Effects of Physical Activity on Behavior Management
14-12 Minutes count: Determining the dose response of classroom exercise beaks on academic acute educational outcomes in primary school students
13-12 Physical Activity and academic achievement: Literature search from SHEU
Exercise, Health
15-11 Factors associated with motor performance among overweight and nonoverweight Tyrolean primary school children
Exercise, Lifestyle, Gambling, Other
15-10 Children’s implicit recall of junk food, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in Australian sport
Exercise, Food
15-02 Predictors of meeting physical activity and fruit and vegetable recommendations in 9–11-year-old children
Exercise, Food, Health
15-01 Healthy Kids Out of School: Using Mixed Methods to Develop Principles for Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out-of-School Settings in the United States
Education, Exercise, Food
14-12 The role and impact of student leadership on participants in a healthy eating and physical activity programme
Exercise, Health, Lifestyle
14-10 Parenting stress: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with childhood obesity, physical activity, and TV viewing

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