The key accountability measure currently used in secondary schools, Progress 8, is a relative measure of progress. It looks at how pupils perform relative to their cohort on a baseline test, and then compares this to how they did relative to their cohort on a second test. However, this mean...
Twenty schools will be allocated to one of four intervention groups, sedentary behavior (SB-I), physical activity (PA-I), combined SB and PA (SB+PA-I) or current practice control (C), which will be evaluated among approximately 600 children aged 8-9 years in school year 3 living in ...
An independent samples t-test was carried out to analyse differences between the experimental and control groups at baseline and after completing the post-test. Next, a series of repeated mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVAs) were performed to examine the effectiveness of the intervention. ...
Subgroup analyses showed no significant moderation of intervention effects by sex, socioeconomic status or baseline fitness levels. Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness were not significantly related to changes in cognitive or mental health outcomes. The trial was marked by high drop-out and low ...
proteins. Normal is defined using the reference range at the time of the test. Our preliminary data suggested that younger controls will often not have a baseline serum creatinine level, though about half will have a urine protein assessment. Since most kidney disease in younger adults is ...