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NCT Number: NCT03015337

Relationship of Motor Skill Competency and Physical Fitness to Physical Activity in Elementary School Students

This study examined how well elementary students demonstrated motor skill competency as a result of participating in the evidence-based quality physical education program and investigated relationships between levels of health-related physical fitness and physical activity in school-aged children.

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Key information

Conditions

Child Behavior Behavior

Age range

4 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • K-5 th grade students who are enrolled in 9 elementary schools in Southeast Michigan.

Exclusion criteria

-

Treatment and study plan

New physical education instructions

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

  1. Running skill assessment

    Time frame: 2 years

    changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students' motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.

  2. Weight transferring skill assessment

    Time frame: 2 years

    changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students' motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.

  3. hand dribbling skill assessment

    Time frame: 2 years

    changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students' motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.

  4. underhand catching skill assessment

    Time frame: 2 years

    changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students' motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.

  5. FitnessGram test

    Time frame: 1 year

    Relationship between fitness and physical activity.

  6. Daily physical activity participation in minutes

    Time frame: 1 year

    Relationship between levels of fitness and daily physical activity participation.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Michigan

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2013
First posted
Jan 10, 2017
Registry last updated
Jan 11, 2017

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