TY - JOUR
T1 - The importance of self-monitoring for behavior change in youth
T2 - Findings from the SWITCH® school wellness feasibility study
AU - McLoughlin, Gabriella M.
AU - Rosenkranz, Richard R.
AU - Lee, Joey A.
AU - Wolff, Maren M.
AU - Chen, Senlin
AU - Dzewaltowski, David A.
AU - Vazou, Spyridoula
AU - Lanningham-Foster, Lorraine
AU - Gentile, Douglas A.
AU - Rosen, Marisa S.
AU - Welk, Gregory J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI 2014–08390).
Funding Information:
This project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI 2014?08390). The authors wish to acknowledge the teachers, administrators, and students who participated in SWITCH?. We also acknowledge the following graduate students: Kyle Braun, who helped to manage data for this project; Rachel Lukoswki, who helped with data collection; and Andi Luth, who helped to build the website.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - School Wellness Integration Targeting Child Health (SWITCH®) is a school wellness implementation initiative focused on building capacity for schools to plan and coordinate wellness programming. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), the purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of the web-based, self-regulation system on physical activity (PA) behavior outcomes. At pre-test and post-test, students in SWITCH® schools (n = 8) completed the online Youth Activity Profile (YAP) to assess PA and sedentary behavior (SB). Students (n = 513) were categorized into high or low self-monitoring groups (using a median split) based on their use of the web-based self-regulation platform. Linear mixed models were used to assess differences in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and sedentary behavior, with school, classroom, student, time-by-school, and time-by-classroom random effects and main and interaction fixed effects for student self-monitoring, gender, and time. Significant self-monitoring-by-time interactions were observed for estimates of PA F(1, 477) = 5.55, p = 0.02 and SB F(1, 477) = 4.90, p = 0.03. Students in the high self-monitoring group had larger gains in PA per day and larger declines in hours per day of sedentary screen time behavior compared to students in the low self-monitoring group. These findings support the utility of web-based self-regulation for facilitating PA change in youth.
AB - School Wellness Integration Targeting Child Health (SWITCH®) is a school wellness implementation initiative focused on building capacity for schools to plan and coordinate wellness programming. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), the purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of the web-based, self-regulation system on physical activity (PA) behavior outcomes. At pre-test and post-test, students in SWITCH® schools (n = 8) completed the online Youth Activity Profile (YAP) to assess PA and sedentary behavior (SB). Students (n = 513) were categorized into high or low self-monitoring groups (using a median split) based on their use of the web-based self-regulation platform. Linear mixed models were used to assess differences in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and sedentary behavior, with school, classroom, student, time-by-school, and time-by-classroom random effects and main and interaction fixed effects for student self-monitoring, gender, and time. Significant self-monitoring-by-time interactions were observed for estimates of PA F(1, 477) = 5.55, p = 0.02 and SB F(1, 477) = 4.90, p = 0.03. Students in the high self-monitoring group had larger gains in PA per day and larger declines in hours per day of sedentary screen time behavior compared to students in the low self-monitoring group. These findings support the utility of web-based self-regulation for facilitating PA change in youth.
KW - Dissemination and implementation
KW - Health promotion
KW - Obesity prevention
KW - Physical activity
KW - School wellness
KW - Sedentary behavior
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph16203806
DO - 10.3390/ijerph16203806
M3 - Article
C2 - 31658604
AN - SCOPUS:85074232130
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 16
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 20
M1 - 3806
ER -