Browsing Physical Education and Sports Science by Author "West Lancashire Community Leisure Trust"

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Acceptability and feasibility of single-component primary school physical activity interventions to inform the AS:Sk project

Taylor, Sarah L.; Noonan, Robert J.; Knowles, Zoe R.; McGrane, Bronagh; Curry, Whitney B.; Fairclough, Stuart J. (MDPI, 2018)

Multi-component school-based interventions provide physical activity (PA) opportunities for children but are often difficult for schools to execute and may not be implemented as intended. The primary aim of this study was ...
Fitness, fatness and the reallocation of time between children’s daily movement behaviours: an analysis of compositional data

Fairclough, Stuart J.; Dumuid, Dorothea; Taylor, Sarah L.; Curry, Whitney B.; McGrane, Bronagh; Stratton, Gareth; Maher, Carol A.; Olds, Timothy (BioMed Central, 2017)

Background: Movement behaviours performed over a finite period such as a 24 h day are compositional data. Compositional data exist in a constrained simplex geometry that is incongruent with traditional multivariate analytical ...
Predictors of segmented school day physical activity and sedentary time in children from a northwest England low-income community

Taylor, Sarah L.; Curry, Whitney B.; Knowles, Zoe R.; Noonan, Robert J.; McGrane, Bronagh; Fairclough, Stuart J. (MDPI, 2017)

Background: Schools have been identified as important settings for health promotion through physical activity participation, particularly as children are insufficiently active for health. The aim of this study was to ...

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