title: The development of the lunchtime enjoyment of activity and play questionnaire.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Enjoyment of physical activity is as an important determinant of children's participation in physical activity. Despite this, there is an absence of reliable measures for assessing children's enjoyment of play activities during school lunchtime. The purpose of this study was to develop and assess the reliability of the Lunchtime Enjoyment of Activity and Play (LEAP) Questionnaire.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaire items were categorized employing a social-ecological framework including intrapersonal (20 items), interpersonal (2 items), and physical environment/policy (17 items) components to identify the broader influences on children's enjoyment. An identical questionnaire was administered on 2 occasions, 10  days apart, to 176 children aged 8-12  years, attending a government elementary school in regional Victoria, Australia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Test-retest reliability confirmed that 35 of 39 LEAP Questionnaire items had at least moderate kappa agreement ranging from .44 to .78. Although 4 individual kappa values were low, median kappa scores for each aggregated social-ecological component reached at least moderate agreement (.44-.60).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study confirms the LEAP Questionnaire to be a reliable, context-specific instrument with sound content, and face validity that employs a social-ecological framework to assess children's enjoyment of school play and lunchtime activities.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Exercise Science, School of Medical Sciences, RMIT University, University PO Box 71, Melbourne, Australia. brendon.hyndman@rmit.edu.au
authors.forename: Brendon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hyndman
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Telford
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Finch
authors.forename: Shahid
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ullah
authors.forename: Amanda C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Benson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D062409:Lunch; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010988:Play and Playthings / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014739:Victoria