After-School Gets Moving

描述（由申请人提供）：与缺乏身体活动相关的健康问题导致了美国一些最紧迫的公共健康问题。这些问题对低收入的城市青年的影响尤其深刻。要努力激励儿童更加积极，就必须认识到家庭、文化、儿童发展、学习方式和环境具有综合效应。针对8 - 10岁儿童的课外活动越来越多，这为体育活动干预提供了一个适当的、有针对性的机会。维达健康通讯公司将制作和评估媒体的有效性，旨在：1.）在城市、空间有限和缺乏挑战的学校课后项目中培训工作人员关于身体活动干预策略; 2.）展示特定环境的方式来激励8 - 10岁儿童增加身体活动。《放学后行动》的主要发行将通过向为城市课后计划服务的基金会和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插播式"激励分钟"。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。完整的程序将在第二阶段产生，然后使用准实验，前测，后测设计与对照组进行评估。拟议的计划与致力于通过增加儿童体育活动来减少儿童肥胖发生率的公共卫生举措特别相关。该项目制作的媒体将侧重于参加课外活动的城市低收入儿童，这些儿童面临空间限制、安全问题和预算限制，难以为儿童提供体育活动的机会。放学后的照顾提供者，谁，迄今为止，很少接受培训和专业发展，将受益于教育和示范本申请提出的最大。

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.