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Effect of a Ban on Extracurricular Sports Activities by Secondary School Teachers on Physical Activity Levels of Adolescents: A Multilevel Analysis

Roman Pabayo, MSc1, Jennifer O'Loughlin, PhD2*, Lise Gauvin, PhD3, Gilles Paradis, MD, MSc4, Katherine Gray-Donald, PhD5

1 Toronto Public Health Planning and Policy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
3 Faculté de Médecine, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Santé and Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Université de Montréal, Canada.
4 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, and Direction de Santé Publique de Montréal-Centre, Montreal, Canada.
5 School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jennifer.oloughlin{at}mcgill.ca..


  Abstract

To study the effect of a teachers' ban on supervising sports-related extracurricular physical activities (ECAs), levels of physical activity among 979 grade 7 students (mean age = 12.7 [0.5] years at baseline) were compared during and after the ban in seven schools that fully implemented the ban, and three schools that did not implement the ban fully. On average, schools offered 18.0 (SD = 5.1) ECAs during a no-ban school year. Students attending full implementation schools were significantly more likely than students in nonimplementation schools to be active after the ban ended (odds ratio for being active = 1.89 [95% confidence interval: 1.39, 2.58]). They also increased the number of physical activities in which they participated (coefficient = 4.04; SE = 1.01). Ending a teachers' ban on sports-related ECAs was associated with increased involvement in physical activity among secondary school students.

Key Words: adolescent, physical activity, school

First published on July 21, 2006, doi:10.1177/1090198105285327

Health Education & Behavior 2006;33:690.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2006

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