'Football for Health'--a football-based health-promotion programme for children in South Africa: a parallel cohort study
| Autor: | Colin W Fuller, Jeff DeCelles, Ryan Jankelowitz, James Donald, Jiri Dvorak, Astrid Junge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Program evaluation
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| Zdroj: | British Journal of Sports Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1473-0480 |
| Popis: | Objectives To develop, implement and assess an interactive, football-based health education programme for children in South Africa. Design Prospective cohort study with control group. Setting Two schools in Khayelitsha township, South Africa. Participants 370 children making up two intervention groups (Grade 6: 125; Grade 7: 131) and one control group (Grade 7: 114). Intervention Eleven 90 min sessions, each divided into two 45 min halves of Play Football (football skills) and Play Fair (health issues), each session focused on one specific health risk factor. Main outcome measures Health knowledge using a 20-item questionnaire; coaches' attitudes towards their training programme using a 10-item questionnaire and children's attitudes towards the health education programme using a six-item questionnaire. Results Children in the Grade 7 intervention group showed significant (p |
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