TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - The secret sauce? Taking the mystery out of scaling-up school-based physical activity interventions
JO  - Journal of physical activity and health
A1  - McKay, Heather A.
A1  - Kennedy, Sarah G.
A1  - Macdonald, Heather M.
A1  - Naylor, Patti-Jean
A1  - Lubans, David R.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Over the last 4 decades, physical activity researchers have invested heavily in determining "what works" to promote healthy behaviors in schools. Single and multicomponent school-based interventions that target physical education, active transportation, and/or classroom activity breaks effectively increased physical activity among children and youth. Yet, few of these interventions are ever scaled-up and implemented under real-world conditions and in diverse populations. To achieve population-level health benefits, there is a need to design school-based health-promoting interventions for scalability and to consider key aspects of the scale-up process. In this opinion piece, we aim to identify challenges and advance knowledge and action toward scaling-up school-based physical activity interventions. We highlight the key roles of planning for scale-up at the outset, scale-up pathways, trust among partners and program support, program adaptation, evaluation of scale-up, and barriers and facilitators to scaling-up. We draw upon our experience scaling-up effective school-based interventions and provide a solid foundation from which others can work toward bridging the implementation-to-scale-up gap.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1543-3080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0274
ID  - ref1
ER  -