The Impact of the Daily Mile™ on School Pupils' Fitness, Cognition, and Wellbeing: Findings From Longer Term Participation.

Autor: Booth JN; Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom., Chesham RA; Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom., Brooks NE; Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom., Gorely T; School of Health, Social Care and Life Sciences, Centre for Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, United Kingdom., Moran CN; Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2022 Apr 28; Vol. 13, pp. 812616. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 28 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.812616
Abstrakt: Background: School based running programmes, such as The Daily Mile™, positively impact pupils' physical health, however, there is limited evidence on psychological health. Additionally, current evidence is mostly limited to examining the acute impact. The present study examined the longer term impact of running programmes on pupil cognition, wellbeing, and fitness.
Method: Data from 6,908 school pupils (mean age 10.2 ± 0.7 years), who were participating in a citizen science project, was examined. Class teachers provided information about participation in school based running programmes. Participants completed computer-based tasks of inhibition, verbal and visual-spatial working memory, as well as the Children's Feeling scale and Felt arousal scale to determine subjective wellbeing. A multistage 20-m shuttle run test was used to estimate fitness.
Results: From our total sample of 6,908 school pupils, 474 participants had been taking part in a running programme for <2 months (Shorter term participation); 1,004 participants had Longer Term participation (>3 months); and 5,430 did not take part in a running programme. The Longer Term participation group had higher fitness levels than both other groups and this remained significant when adjusted for age, sex and SES. Moderated regression analysis found that for the Shorter Term participation group, higher shuttle distance was associated with better visual-spatial working memory. Effect sizes were small though.
Conclusion: We identified small and selective positive impact of participation in school based running programmes on fitness and cognition. While no long term benefit was identified for cognition or wellbeing, the impact on fitness and short term benefit suggest schools should consider participation.
Competing Interests: JB and CM currently sit on the research advisory group for The Daily Mile Foundation but did not at the time of study design and data collection. They receive no payment or expenses for this though and their role is to advise concerning research priorities only. The Daily Mile Foundation had no role in the present research. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
(Copyright © 2022 Booth, Chesham, Brooks, Gorely and Moran.)
Databáze: MEDLINE