Development of the Presidential Youth Fitness Program Index: A Scale of Organizational-Level Capacity

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• Alternative Title:
  Res Q Exerc Sport
• Personal Author:
  Cance, Jessica Duncan ; Calvert, Hannah G. ; Chen, Yen T. ; Barcelona, Jeanne M. ; Barnes, Seraphine Pitt ; Wargo, Jane ; Castelli, Darla M.
• Description:
  : Fitness education is essential for children's health, but determining the effectiveness of instruction related to health-related fitness is difficult. The present study developed and confirmed the validity of a 20-item scale, adapted from the School Health Index (Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014), to evaluate the success of fitness education portion of the Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP) across a sample of 785 teachers. |: The initial subset (n = 373) represented 353 schools and was used for conducting an exploratory factor analysis. The second subset (n = 412) representing 404 schools, was used to conduct the confirmatory factor analysis. Teachers self-assessed their perceived degree of implementation of fitness education (full, partial, under development, not in place) within their school (i.e., teachers helped students set fitness goals). |: An initial exploratory factor analysis revealed that the Fitness Education Index questions clustered into six factors. A subsequent confirmatory factor analysis conducted using Mplus concluded the six-factor solution was a good fit (CFI = 0.90, TLI = 0.88, RMSEA = 0.08, SRMR = 0.06). |: This scale is a valid measure of a school's readiness to initiate and track progress toward the full implementation of fitness education.
• Subjects:
  Child Child Health Factor Analysis, Statistical Humans Physical Education And Training Physical Fitness Program Evaluation Psychometrics Reproducibility Of Results School Teachers Self Report

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• Source:
  Res Q Exerc Sport. 91(1):172-178
• Pubmed ID:
  31617835
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7183731
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  91
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:0f2b5db5818199651a7c622c42473313e02469abae4d1ebbb7d34fd93ae7e1b9
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