Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out-of-School Time Settings (eBook)

New Directions for Youth Development, Number 143

Georgia Hall, Jean L. Wiecha (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
128 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-119-04572-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The evidence base of the impact and effectiveness of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in the out-of-school setting is continuing to emerge. By sponsoring this special issue, the National AfterSchool Association provides a platform for the sharing of a range of research studies that can inform and shape current discussion of best policies and practices to support child and youth wellness. The body of work presented in this issue adds considerably to our knowledge of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in out-of-school programs, and highlights the substantial contribution towards childhood obesity prevention that we envision from our field. This is the 143rd volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.

Autor

Jean L. Wiecha is a senior scientist at RTI International. Georgia Hall is a senior research scientist at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.

Inhalt

Issue Editors' Notes 1
Jean L.Wiecha, Georgia Hall

Executive Summary 7

1. 4-H Healthy Living programs with impact: A nationalenvironmental scan
Laura H. Downey, Donna J. Peterson, Suzanne LeMenestrel, JoAnneLeatherman, James Lang 13

This chapter shares findings from an environmental scan of 4-Hprograms that adhered to the national 4-H Healthy Livingmission.

2. Concerns in measurement of healthy eating and physicalactivity standards implementation
Katherine H. Hohman, Karah D. Mantinan 25

This chapter examines the measurement and monitoring of healthyeating and physical activity (HEPA) standards implementation inYMCA afterschool program sites.

3. Creating healthier afterschool environments in the HealthyEating Active Communities program
Arnell J. Hinkle, Sallie Yoshida 45

This chapter describes California's Healthy Eating ActiveCommunities (HEAC) afterschool program initiative, reviews findingsfrom the HEAC afterschool program nutrition and physical activityevaluation, and shares strategies that were used to implement thefive-year training and technical assistance intervention.

4. Effects of a competency-based professional developmenttraining on children's physical activity and staff physicalactivity promotion in summer day camps
R. Glenn Weaver, Michael W. Beets, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy,Collin A.Webster, Justin Moore 57

This chapter presents findings from a multiyear evaluation of acompetency-based training approach, adopted by the YMCA ofColumbia, SC. Authors describe how a competency-based professionaldevelopment training may be effective at increasing physicalactivity promoting and decreasing physical activity discouragingstaff behaviors and related child activity levels.

5. Impact of implementation factors on children's waterconsumption in the Out-of-School Nutrition and Physical
Activity group-randomized trial
Rebekka M. Lee, Cassandra Okechukwu, Karen M. Emmons, Steven L.Gortmaker 79

This chapter demonstrates the effectiveness of an afterschoolintervention on increases in children's water consumption andoutlines the substantial influence that implementation factors canhave on the effectiveness of an obesity preventionintervention.

6. Evidence-based fitness promotion in an afterschool setting:Implementation fidelity and its policy implications
Jean M. Thaw, Manuela Villa, David Reitman, Christian DeLucia,Vanessa Gonzalez, K. Lori Hanson 103

Using a three-wave, quasi-experimental, naturalistic observationdesign, this study evaluated the implementation of anevidence-based physical activity (PA) instruction curriculum andwhether the potential health benefits of evidence-based PAinstruction can be replicated in this context when compared toout-of-school time programs that do not use evidence-based PAcurricula.

7. Active summers matter: Evaluation of a community-basedsummertime program targeting obesogenic behaviors of low-income,ethnic minority girls
Amy M. Bohnert, Amanda K.Ward, Kimberly A. Burdette, Rebecca L.Silton, Lara R. Dugas 133

This study examines the effectiveness of Girls in the Game, asix-hour four-week sports and fitness summer camp program, inincreasing physical activity and reducing body mass index and mediause.

Index 151

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2014
• Reihe/Serie: J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • Education • K-12 / Entwicklung im Jugendalter • Youth Development (K-12)
• ISBN-10: 1-119-04572-X / 111904572X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-04572-4 / 9781119045724