Category | Recess & lunch behaviour (%) | Recess & lunch behaviour (%) Boys Obs. | Recess & lunch behaviour (%) Girls Obs. | ||||||
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Baseline M (SD) (n = 115) | Follow-up M (SD) n = 599) | Mean Diff. Cohen’s d (p-value) | Baseline M (SD) (n = 59) | Follow-up M (SD) (n = 299) | Mean Diff. Cohen’s d (p-value) | Baseline M (SD) (n = 56) | Follow-up M (SD) (n = 300) | Mean Diff. Cohen’s d (p-value) | |
Intensity of Physical Activity (via SOPARC) | |||||||||
Sedentary activities | 57.5 (27.6) | 49.8 (30.5) | −7.7 0.26 (0.01) | 52.5 (28.6) | 42.9 (30.1) | −9.6 0.3 (0.01) | 62.8 (25.8) | 56.8 (29.2) | −6.0 0.2 (0.183) |
Walking | 26.6 (20.1) | 25.1 (18.3) | 1.5 0.1 (0.4) | 26.8 (18.5) | 23.2 (15.8) | −3.55 0.2 (0.1) | 26.4 (21.8) | 26.9 (20.3) | + 0.5 0.02 (0.8) |
Vigorous activities (VPA) | 15.0 (21.8) | 25.1 (26.6) | + 10.1 0.4 (< 0.001) | 19.0 (25.1) | 33.9 (27.6) | + 14.85 0.6 (< 0.001) | 10.8 (16.9) | 16.3 (22.4) | + 5.5 30.3 (0.03) |
Recess & lunch behaviour (VPA%) | |||||||||
Physical Activity observations (via SOPARC) | M (SD) Baseline | M (SD) Follow-up | Mean Diff. Cohen’s d (p-value) | ||||||
Hard Surface (n = 54 Baseline; n = 238 Follow-up) (i.e., Cement or Asphalt | 8.7 (18.9) | 13.7 (18.8) | + 5.05 0.3 (0.004) | ||||||
Soft Surface (n = 60 Baseline; n = 361 Follow-up) (i.e., grass) | 20.9 (22.8) | 32.5 (28.4) | + 11.6 0.4 (0.004) |