After-School Gets Moving

描述(由申请者提供)：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。鼓励儿童更加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岁儿童的课外项目越来越多，这为体育活动干预提供了一个适当的、有针对性的机会。维达健康通信公司将制作和评估媒体的有效性，旨在：1.)在城市、空间有限和预算困难的课外项目中培训工作人员，了解体育活动干预战略和2.)展示特定于环境的方法，以激励8-10岁儿童增加体力活动。课后行动的主要分销将通过向基金会和为城市课后计划提供服务的倡导团体进行批量销售。节目信息的二次分发将包括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放的间隙“励志分钟”。在第一阶段，调查人员将开发和评估DVD计划的原型模块，以便在放学后培训托管者。完整的计划将在第二阶段产生，然后通过与对照组的准实验、前测和后测设计进行评估。拟议的方案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降低儿童肥胖症的发生率。该项目将制作的媒体将侧重于参加课外项目的城市低收入儿童，这些儿童面临空间限制、安全问题和预算限制，这些问题使儿童很难有机会进行体育活动。到目前为止，很少接受培训和专业发展的学校照管提供者，将从这项申请提出的教育和示范中受益最大。

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.