Effects of a Comprehensive School Health Program on Elementary Student Academic Achievement

• In Event: 28.090 - MTCC Roundtable Session Nine
  In Roundtable Session: 28.090-12 - Students Perspectives on and Experiences in Health and Physical Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a six-component comprehensive school physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) program on the reading and math achievement of 628 (377 intervention) children in 5th grade using individual curriculum-based measures. Those in the intervention group demonstrated a faster rate of improvement than the comparison group in both reading and math over one school year.

Authors

• Erin Elizabeth Centeio, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Cheryl Leigh Somers, Wayne State University

• E. Whitney G. Moore, Wayne State University

• Noel Kulik, Wayne State University

• Alex C. Garn, Louisiana State University

• Bo Shen, Wayne State University

• Jeffrey Martin, Wayne State University

• Nathan A. Mccaughtry, Wayne State University