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- Title
The Minne-Loppet Motivation Study: An Intervention to Increase Motivation for Outdoor Winter Physical Activity in Ethnically and Racially Diverse Elementary Schools.
- Authors
Miller, Jonathan M.; Wolfson, Julian; Laska, Melissa N.; Nelson, Toben F.; Pereira, Mark A.
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To test the effectiveness of an intervention to increase motivation for physical activity in racially diverse third- through fifth-grade students.<bold>Design: </bold>Natural experiment.<bold>Setting: </bold>Elementary schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<bold>Participants: </bold>Two hundred ninety-one students in 18 Minne-Loppet Ski Program classes and 210 students in 12 control classrooms from the same schools.<bold>Intervention: </bold>The Minne-Loppet Ski Program, an 8-week curriculum in elementary schools that teaches healthy physical activity behaviors through cross-country skiing.<bold>Measures: </bold>Pretest and posttest surveys measured self-determination theory outcomes: intrinsic exercise motivation, intrinsic ski motivation, autonomy, competence, and relatedness.<bold>Analysis: </bold>Hierarchical linear regression models tested treatment effects controlled for grade, race, sex, and baseline measures of the outcomes.<bold>Results: </bold>Minne-Loppet program students showed significantly greater motivation to ski (β = 0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.15-1.75) and significantly greater perceived competence (β = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.06-1.50) than students in control classrooms. Treatment effects for general exercise motivation and perceived competence differed by race. African American students in Minne-Loppet classes showed significantly greater general exercise motivation (β = 1.08, 95% CI: 0.03-2.14) and perceived competence (β = 1.95, 95% CI: 0.91-2.99) than African American students in control classes.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The Minne-Loppet program promoted perceived competence and motivation to ski. Future improvements to the Minne-Loppet and similar interventions should aim to build general motivation and provide support needed to better engage all participants.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACADEMIC motivation; PHYSICAL activity; ELEMENTARY schools; CROSS-country skiing; SELF-determination theory; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
American Journal of Health Promotion, 2018, Vol 32, Issue 8, p1706
- ISSN
0890-1171
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/0890117118768119