After-School Gets Moving

描述（由申请人提供）：与缺乏运动相关的健康问题是美国最紧迫的公共卫生问题之一。这三个问题对低收入、城市青年的影响尤为深刻。激励儿童更积极的努力需要认识到家庭、文化、儿童发展、学习方式和环境具有综合影响。针对8-10岁儿童的课外活动日益增多，为体育活动干预提供了一个适当的、有针对性的机会。Vida健康传播公司将制作和评估媒体的有效性，旨在：1.)在城市，空间有限和预算有限的课后项目中培训员工有关体育活动干预策略；示范针对环境的方法，鼓励8-10岁儿童增加体育活动。《课后行动》的主要发行将通过向为城市课后项目服务的基金会和倡导团体大量销售。节目信息的二次分发将包括插播“激励分钟”，在儿童和家庭观看时间在城市媒体市场的公共和有线电视上播出。在第一阶段，研究人员将开发和评估DVD程序的原型模块，以培训课后护理提供者。完整的方案将在第二阶段产生，然后使用准实验，前测试，后测试设计与对照组进行评估。拟议的项目与公共卫生倡议特别相关，这些倡议旨在通过增加儿童的体育活动来减少儿童肥胖的发病率。该项目将制作的媒体将重点关注城市低收入家庭的孩子，他们参加了课外活动，面临空间限制；安全问题和预算限制使得很难为儿童提供体育活动的机会。迄今为止，很少接受培训和专业发展的课后护理提供者将从本应用程序提出的教育和示范中获益最多。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health problems associated with physical inactivity contribute to some of the nation's most pressing public health concerns. The impact of thee problems on low income, urban youth is especially profound. Efforts to motivate children to be more active require awareness that family, culture, child development, learning style and environment have a combined effect. The increasing proliferation of after school programs for 8-10 year old children presents an appropriate, targeted opportunity for physical activity intervention. Vida Health Communications, Inc. will produce and evaluate the effectiveness of media designed to: 1.) train staff in urban, space-limited and budget-challenged after school programs about physical activity intervention strategies and 2.) Demonstrate environment-specific ways to motivate increases in physical activity among children ages 8-10. Primary distribution of After School Gets Moving will be through volume sales to foundations and advocacy groups servicing urban after school programs. Secondary distribution of the program messages will involve interstitial "motivational minutes" for broadcast on public and cable television in urban media markets during child and family viewing hours. In Phase I, investigators will develop and evaluate prototype modules of a DVD program to train after school care providers. Full programs will be produced in Phase II and then evaluated using a quasi-experimental, pre-test, posttest design with comparison groups. The proposed programs are particularly relevant to public health initiatives working to decrease incidence of childhood obesity by increasing physical activity in children. The media to be produced in the project will focus on urban, low-income children enrolled in after school programs that face space limitations; safety issues and budget constraints which make it difficult to provide children with opportunities for physical activity. After school care providers, who, to date, are seldom the recipients of training and professional development, will benefit most from the education and demonstrations this application proposes.