HOPSports On-Line-Streaming Brain Breaks for Primary Students

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The ultimate goal of this global project is the formulation of evidence-based policy and practice to reduce youth obesity. In order to achieve the goal, the project is designed as a series of studies exploring the effect of Brain Breaks on children’s attitudes toward physical activity, including:

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• the development of a theoretical model on factors contributing to children’s involvement in physical activity;

• the identification of attitudes critical to children’s involvement in physical activity from the literature;

• the development of measurement scales for the attitudes;

• the design of an experiment (with pilot testing) to test the effect of Brain Breaks on children’s attitudes toward physical activity; and

• the design of teacher development programs for the use of Brain-Breaks at schools based on results of above.

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