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School-Based and PRECEDE-PROCEED-Model Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the High School Students: Case Study of Iran

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  • Baratali Rezapour
  • Firoozeh Mostafavi
  • Hamid Reza Khalkhali

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OBJECTIVES- Students attend sedentary life style and less like vigorous physical activity. This study investigated the effects of School-based intervention on increasing physical activity for decreasing obesity among high-school obese and overweight boys, based on the components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model, to participate in median - vigorous physical activity among the first Period of high school boys in the city of Urmia, IranMETHODS- This study was an experimental intervention that conducted at 4 high schools that were divided into 2 groups of intervention (40) and the control (40) male students, schools in junior high schools in Urmia.RESULTS- Three and six months after the intervention, significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups of schools, in the amount of students’ participation in vigorous physical activity (p<0.01).CONCLUSIONS- According to the results, the school-based intervention and components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model had a positive impact on the improvement of physical activity and decrease in physical inactivity among the students.

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  • Baratali Rezapour & Firoozeh Mostafavi & Hamid Reza Khalkhali, 2016. "School-Based and PRECEDE-PROCEED-Model Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the High School Students: Case Study of Iran," Global Journal of Health Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(9), pages 271-271, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:gjhsjl:v:8:y:2016:i:9:p:271
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