Qualitative evaluation of a school intervention for the promotion of physical activity: Learning from the perspective of the target population.

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Beltrán-Carrillo, Vicente Javier
Ferriz, Roberto
Brown, David
Gonzalez-Cutre, David
Date
2017-07-01Acceptance date
2017-06-02
Type
Article
Publisher
Spanish Association of Sport Science
ISSN
2386-4095 (ESSN)
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Qualitative evaluations of school-based interventions for physical activity promotion are seldom undertaken, but can provide important insights into unforeseen limitations and consequences of interventions. These understandings can help the refinement of those aspects of school intervention implementation that are not easily identified a priori via quantitative evaluations. We illustrate this argument with the example of evaluative qualitative data collected during a physical activity promotion intervention that we carried out in two Spanish primary schools. The findings of this study uncovered a number of unexpected and difficult to quantify problem areas including; communication problems with parents, classroom-based interventions as off-putting, the legitimization of stereotypical health and body shape associations and even instances of marginalization of some of the very children the interventions were targeting. In conclusion we call for researchers to consider drawing on qualitative evaluations in order to aid the refinement of future school-based interventions.
Journal/conference proceeding
European Journal of Human Movement;
Citation
Beltrán-Carrillo, Vi. J. ,Ferriz, R., Brown, D.H.K.,& González-Cutre, D. (2017) 'Qualitative evaluation of a school intervention for the promotion of physical activity: Learning from the perspective of the target population' European Journal of Human Movement, 38, 68-92.
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This article was published in European Journal of Human Movement on 02 July 2017 - available open access at http://www.eurjhm.com/index.php/eurjhm/article/view/414/606
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
Spanish Sport Council
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