title: The effect of the UP4FUN pilot intervention on objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity in 10-12 year old children in Belgium: the ENERGY-project.
abstract: BAKCKGROUND: The first aim was to examine the effect of the UP4FUN pilot intervention on children's total sedentary time. The second aim was to investigate if the intervention had an effect on children's physical activity (PA) level. Finally, we aimed to investigate demographic differences (i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, living status and having siblings) between children in the intervention group who improved in sedentary time and PA at post-test and children in the intervention group who worsened in sedentary time and PA at post-test.
  
  
  METHODS
  The six weeks UP4FUN intervention was tested in a randomized controlled trial with pre-test post-test design with five intervention and five control schools in Belgium and included children of the 5th and 6th grade. The children wore accelerometers for seven days at pre- and post-test. Analyses included children with valid accelerometer data for at least two weekdays with minimum 10h-wearing time and one weekend day with 8h-wearing time.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Final analyses included 372 children (60% girls, mean age = 10.9 ± 0.7 years). There were no significant differences in the change in sedentary time or light PA between intervention and control schools for the total sample or for the subgroup analyses by gender. However, children (specifically girls) in the intervention group had a higher decrease in moderate-to-vigorous PA than children in the control group. In the intervention group, children who lived with both parents and children with one or more siblings were less likely to reduce sedentary time after exposure to the intervention. Older children, girls and children who lived with both parents were less likely to increase light PA after the intervention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The UP4FUN intervention did not result in an effect on children's sedentary time. Based on the high amounts of accelerometer-derived sedentary time in this age group, more efforts are needed to develop strategies to reduce children's sedentary time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. maite.verloigne@ugent.be
authors.forename: Maïte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verloigne
authors.forename: Elling
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bere
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Van Lippevelde
authors.forename: Lea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maes
authors.forename: Nanna
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lien
authors.forename: Froydis N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Vik
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brug
authors.forename: Greet
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cardon
authors.forename: Ilse
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: De Bourdeaudhuij
mesh_terms: D061725:Accelerometry; D001530:Belgium; D002648:Child; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012107:Research Design; D057185:Sedentary Behavior