Abstract
Deirdre Harrington and Michelle O'Reilly discuss the article "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the GoActive intervention to increase physical activity among UK adolescents: A cluster randomised controlled trial" by Kirsten Corder and colleagues.
Highlights
The authors report on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a theorydriven, feasibility-tested physical activity promotion programme for 12 to 14 year olds in 16 UK secondary schools
The Corder trial employed a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) design that required large amounts of data collected during a narrow time frame to fit in with the academic calendar
As the world still reels from the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an impending threat of triple inertia: that funders may stop funding school-based physical activity research, that academics may flounder under the weight of evidence lacking effectiveness, and that stakeholders will have new priorities resulting in limited physical activity research opportunities with schools
Summary
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Harrington DM, O’Reilly M (2020) The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era. Evaluation of school-based physical activity programmes using the rigid cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) design aim to contribute high-quality evidence on approaches to tackling physical inactivity.
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