Get Outside! Promoting Adolescent Health through Outdoor After-School Activity

Barfield, Patricia; Ridder, Katelyn; Hughes, Justin; Rice-Mcneil, Kelly

doi:10.3390/ijerph18147223

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“…The positive associations between outdoor activity and PA among both genders supported the hypothesis. These findings echo previous PA advocators that it is important to push university students to go outdoors instead of staying indoors ( 36 ). Given that the present findings were obtained during COVID-19 pandemic, the implication is that government and policymakers may consider implemented initiatives allowing citizens to go outdoors if lockdown and closures are needed for controlling COVID-19 transmission.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Although evidence has shown that PA (or physical inactivity) is associated with weight stigma ( 10 – 13 ), sedentary activity ( 19 – 22 ), and outdoor activity ( 36 ), the associations might vary between genders. Prior evidence shows that females as compared with males enjoy PA less and has fewer positive effects on their quality of life ( 37 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender Differences in the Associations Between Physical Activity, Smartphone Use, and Weight Stigma

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Chen

Chang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundPhysical activity (PA) is important for health. However, there is little evidence on how weight stigma, time spent on sedentary activities (including smartphone, social media, online learning), time spent on outdoor activity, and nomophobia associate with PA among Chinese individuals with consideration of gender. The present study examined the aforementioned associations in the COVID-19 pandemic era.MethodsUniversity students (N = 3,135; 1,798 females, 1,337 males) with a mean age of 19.65 years (SD = 2.38) years completed an online survey from November to December, 2021. The online survey assessed weight stigma (using the Perceived Weight Stigma Scale and Weight Bias Internalization Scale), PA (using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form), time spent on different activities (using self-designed items for time on smartphone, outdoor activity, social media, and online learning), and nomophobia (using the Nomophobia Questionnaire). Parallel mediation models were constructed (dependent variable: PA; mediators: perceived weight stigma, weight-related self-stigma, time spent on smartphone, time spent on outdoor activity, time spent on social media, and time spent online learning; independent variable: nomophobia) and evaluated using Hayes' Process Macro Model 4 (IBM SPSS 20.0).ResultsWeight-related self-stigma (β = −0.06; p = 0.03), time spent on outdoor activity (β = 0.21; p < 0.001), time spent on social media (β = 0.07; p = 0.02), time spent on online learning (β = 0.06; p = 0.03), and nomophobia (β = −0.07; p = 0.01) were all significant factors explaining the PA among female participants. Perceived weight stigma (β = −0.07; p = 0.01), time spent on outdoor activity (β = 0.27; p < 0.001), and time spent on online learning (β = 0.10; p = 0.002) were all significant factors explaining PA among male participants.ConclusionChinese healthcare providers should design programs on weight stigma reduction and outdoor activity improvement to enhance PA among university students.

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confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in the Associations Between Physical Activity, Smartphone Use, and Weight Stigma

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Chen

Chang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Furthermore, the project garnered the affection of children, stimulated their active involvement, and enhanced their adherence. The activity of building the garden made the children the builders of the project, which is consistent with a previous study 21 . As for the parents, they became the promoters and organizers of the project.…”

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Stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of an outdoor activity project on children myopia prevention: a multiperspective qualitative study

Zhang

Zou

et al. 2023

Interdisciplinary Nursing Research

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Objective: The current investigation sought to examine the experiences and perspectives of the project coordinators, participating parents, and children to identify strategies for enhancing children’s engagement and adherence to outdoor physical activities. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative study was conducted from October 2019 to December 2019 through in-depth interviews with 32 families who participated in the community children myopia prevention project, 15 project volunteers, and 8 community organizers. Results: Five themes and ten subthemes were identified to enhance children’s participation rate and adherence to the project. The five themes were as follows: (1) overcoming parental barriers; (2) attracting parental participation; (3) active support from parents; (4) creating a positive experience for children; and (5) integration into children’s daily lives. Conclusion: Empowering parents and children by meeting their needs, creating innovative activities, and connecting them with community social networks support the successful integration of the outdoor activity program into their daily lives. The sharing and integration of community resources through community empowerment can provide a framework for developing future community interventional projects.

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“…The results, therefore, show that the impact reported for young people in precarious situations are not necessarily conditioned by their additional needs. The practical significance of NBIs for the young people in the 'control studies,' is that their improvement in wellbeing served as protective factors against future risk, especially for those in school and uninvolved in extracurricular activities and those from rural areas (Barfield et al, 2021;Milligan & Bingley, 2007;Pelyva et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Promoting Sustainable Well-Being Through Nature-Based Interventions for Young People in Precarious Situations: Implications for Social work. A Systematic Review

Obeng,

Kangas,

Stamm

et al. 2023

J Happiness Stud

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Precarious situations disproportionately affect the well-being of young people. Social workers are concerned with sustainable ways to improve young people’s well-being, and nature-based interventions are proposed as sustainable solutions. We used a systematic review approach to identify how nature-based interventions can promote sustainable well-being. A literature search generated 1753 results, from which 49 peer-reviewed articles were selected for analysis. Young people in precarious situations (i) had underlying social, emotional, and mental health needs that put them at risk of disengaging from education or employment and (ii) were not in education or employment. The most common intervention was wilderness therapy, followed by animal-assisted interventions, outdoor adventure interventions, horticultural interventions, care farming, environmental conservation, surfing therapy, and sustainable construction. The reviewed literature indicates that nature-based interventions promote sustainable well-being by (i) ensuring that well-being was interconnected with environmental, social, and economic sustainability, (ii) fostering connectedness with nature, and (iii) producing enduring outcomes. We further used the Having-Doing-Loving-Being model of sustainable well-being to interpret well-being outcomes, concluding that nature-based interventions enhance young people’s relationship with society and nature. Implications for social work include collaborating with other experts to implement nature-based interventions to address well-being problems, advocacy for the introduction of nature-based activities into schools and recognition of nature-based interventions as alternative avenues for meaningful participation.

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Get Outside! Promoting Adolescent Health through Outdoor After-School Activity

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

Gender Differences in the Associations Between Physical Activity, Smartphone Use, and Weight Stigma

Gender Differences in the Associations Between Physical Activity, Smartphone Use, and Weight Stigma

Stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of an outdoor activity project on children myopia prevention: a multiperspective qualitative study

Promoting Sustainable Well-Being Through Nature-Based Interventions for Young People in Precarious Situations: Implications for Social work. A Systematic Review

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