Greenspace schoolyards increase students' physical activity in most studies, with effects persisting at 16-month follow-up¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Four of six schoolyard-greenspace studies reported significant PA increases, including sustained higher PA at 16-month follow-up in the renovated school. → Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 2024

Evidence¶

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 2024¶

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick. (2024). Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09963-1

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The review reports Raney et al.'s 16-month quasi-experimental follow-up of schoolyard greening (two primary schools, n = 330): "students in the experimental school had significantly higher PA than students in the control school". No effect size is printed.

"At 16-month follow-up, students in the experimental school had significantly higher PA than students in the control school (Raney et al., 2021)."

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 2024 (2)¶

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick. (2024). Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09963-1

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The review reports a null from Van Dijk-Wesselius et al.'s large quasi-experiment (n = 2031): "non-significant differences in PA levels" between greened and paved schoolyard schools across follow-ups, though girls in intervention schools increased PA to follow-up 1.

"Van Dijk-Wesselius et al. (2018) found that from baseline to follow-up 1 and 2, there were non-significant differences in PA levels between students in five primary schools who greened their schoolyards, and students in four control schools with paved schoolyards."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Physical Well-Being — outcome: instruction changes it

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