An 8-week Fundamental Motor Skill Program Improves Skill Proficiency and Reduces Sedentary Time in Pre-schoolers

Parents, Teachers, and Community: A Team Approach to Developing Physical Competence in Children

“…The improvements in physical competence are not surprising since physical literacy interventions have the strongest effect on physical competency outcomes [48]. When compared to the outcomes of other interventions utilizing the PLAY tools, we found similar improvements in physical competence for children in the intervention and, to a lesser extent, improvements for the usual practice group [31,32,35]. The percent change for overall physical competence in the current study was much higher for both the intervention and usual practice groups (44% and 14%, respectively), compared to other studies that found a smaller increase of 3% for the control group [32] and 8% for the intervention group [32,37].…”

“…Interventions in schools focused on improving physical competence have yielded improvements after the intervention [30][31][32][33] as well as when compared to usual practice sites [31][32][33]. Interventions in the community setting have also found improvements in physical competence compared to baseline [34][35][36][37] and greater physical competence than children in the control group [35,37]. However, to our knowledge, no studies have examined the potential of a multi-setting physical literacy intervention to improve physical competence.…”