Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials

Some evidence was found for potentially effective strategies to increase children's levels of physical activity and for adolescents, multicomponent interventions and interventions that included both school and family or community involvement have the potential to make important differences to levels ofPhysical activity and should be promoted.

Abstract

Some evidence was found for potentially effective strategies to increase children's levels of physical activity. For adolescents, multicomponent interventions and interventions that included both school and family or community involvement have the potential to make important differences to levels of physical activity and should be promoted. A lack of high quality evaluations hampers conclusions concerning effectiveness, especially among children.