PMID- 19998854
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100113
LR  - 20191111
IS  - 1543-3080 (Print)
IS  - 1543-3080 (Linking)
VI  - 6 Suppl 1
DP  - 2009
TI  - Observing children's playground activity levels at 13 Illawarra primary schools 
      using CAST2.
PG  - S89-96
AB  - BACKGROUND: Declining levels of children's physical activity may contribute to 
      Australia's increasing childhood obesity epidemic. School recess is an 
      underutilized opportunity to increase children's physical activity. METHODS: 
      Thirteen regional Australian public primary schools participated in the study 
      (2946 children). The Children's Activity Scanning Tool 2 (CAST2) collected 
      observational playground physical activity data. The research also addressed: 
      length of break, socioeconomic status (SES), gender, number of scanning days, and 
      instrument calibration. RESULTS: The proportions of Moderate or Vigorous 
      Physically Activity (MVPA) children at the observed schools ranged from 0.4 to 
      0.7. The odds ratio of boys being MVPA relative to girls ranged from 0.8581 to 
      2.137. There were significant differences between the mean proportions of 3 days 
      of activity (range P = .001 to P = .015) and no association between SES school 
      groupings (deviance ratio: 0.48; P = .503). Interrater reliability for instrument 
      calibration using Spearman correlations coefficients ranged from r = .71 to r = 
      .99. CONCLUSIONS: There were significant differences between proportions of MVPA 
      children at the 13 schools and between male and female populations. There was no 
      association between playground physical activity and SES. The monitoring period 
      for CAST2 should be at least 3 days. Interrater reliability indicates that 
      correlations between observers were consistently high.
FAU - Parrish, Anne-Maree
AU  - Parrish AM
AD  - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.
FAU - Iverson, Don
AU  - Iverson D
FAU - Russell, Ken
AU  - Russell K
FAU - Yeatman, Heather
AU  - Yeatman H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PL  - United States
TA  - J Phys Act Health
JT  - Journal of physical activity & health
JID - 101189457
SB  - IM
MH  - Australia
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Education/organization & administration
MH  - *Environment
MH  - *Exercise
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Observation
MH  - Odds Ratio
MH  - *Organizational Policy
MH  - *Play and Playthings
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Students
EDAT- 2009/12/17 06:00
MHDA- 2010/01/14 06:00
CRDT- 2009/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2009/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/12/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/01/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1123/jpah.6.s1.s89 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Phys Act Health. 2009;6 Suppl 1:S89-96. doi: 10.1123/jpah.6.s1.s89.