Abstract
Objectives:Students attend sedentary life style and less like vigorous physical activity. This study investigated the effects of School-based intervention on increasing physical activity for decreasing obesity among high-school obese and overweight boys, based on the components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model, to participate in median - vigorous physical activity among the first Period of high school boys in the city of Urmia, IranMethods:This study was an experimental intervention that conducted at 4 high schools that were divided into 2 groups of intervention (40) and the control (40) male students, schools in junior high schools in Urmia.Results:Three and six months after the intervention, significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups of schools, in the amount of students’ participation in vigorous physical activity (p<0.01).Conclusions:According to the results, the school-based intervention and components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model had a positive impact on the improvement of physical activity and decrease in physical inactivity among the students.
Highlights
The last demonstrative increase in the rates of obesity in students indicates that there is an urgent necessity for the schools to consistently and efficiently advance physical activity PA manners that will protect the students from overweight and obesity
According to the results, the school-based intervention and components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model had a positive impact on the improvement of physical activity and decrease in physical inactivity among the students
There were no significant differences in the demographic variables between students in the control and intervention schools (Table 1)
Summary
The last demonstrative increase in the rates of obesity in students indicates that there is an urgent necessity for the schools to consistently and efficiently advance physical activity PA manners that will protect the students from overweight and obesity. The significance of PA in decreasing prevalence of overweight and obesity and illness and death from ailment has been well established (Jafari-Adli, Jouyandeh, Qorbani, Soroush, Larijani, & Hasani-Ranjbar, 2014). In that time we must consider a significantly expanded role for schools in providing PA to students. Interventions like SBI and theoretical health education based on PRECEDE -PROCEED-Model (PPM) programs can increase time of PA per week and decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity (Yarahmadi et al, 2013). Sedentary life style and lack of vigorous physical activity (VPA),cause overweight and obesity that often establish in childhood; 33% of students attended daily physical education (PE) classes and 72% of students did not participate; So the school district should support PA and provide school environments to promote and protect students’ health, well-being, and ability to learn (Activity., 2005). Studies showed that 14% of all U.S deaths www.ccsenet.org/gjhs
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