'Walk Buds': A walking programme to increase physical activity, physical fitness and emotional wellbeing, in 9–13 yr old children with intellectual disability. A study …

L Taggart, A Johnston, P Mullhall, A Hassiotis… - Contemporary Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
… The core components of the Walk Buds programme are: it is a manualised … walking programme,
it has a peer buddy system where older pupils (aged 16–19 yrs) in the same school walk

Overweight and obesity among children: An evaluation of a walking program

N Zuraikat, C Dugan - Hospital Topics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among
children, 6–11 years old, in a rural area in Western Pennsylvania. In addition, we evaluated …

Effects of a 15-week accumulated brisk walking programme on the body composition of primary school children

PA Ford, G Perkins, I Swaine - Journal of sports sciences, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
walking programme, performed during the school day, is effective in changing body composition
in primary school children … , which involved brisk walking around the school grounds for …

Peer-led walking programme to increase physical activity in inactive 60-to 70-year-olds: Walk with Me pilot RCT

MA Tully, C Cunningham, A Wright… - Public Health …, 2019 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
… aimed at increasing physical activity in children, adolescents, adults and older adults … There
is a lack of evidence of the effects of peer-led walking programmes in older adults. The ‘Walk

Get Fit Kids: A Feasibility Study of a Pedometer-Based Walking Program

AD Williams, V Warrington - Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
walking program for elementary-aged children, further research is needed to determine if
this program is of benefit and can be replicated in other populations of children and adults. …

Do interventions to increase walking work? A systematic review of interventions in children and adolescents

A Carlin, MH Murphy, AM Gallagher - Sports Medicine, 2016 - Springer
… ] or participated in a healthy eating programme at school while the active travel intervention
… A meta-analysis of interventions to increase PA in young people (<11 years old) highlighted …

Structured home-based exercise program for improving walking ability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy

AA Fauzi, MM Khayat, S Sabirin… - Journal of pediatric …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
… home-based exercise programme that can improve the walking function of children with
ambulant CP. Although its effect was not significantly sustained after the programme, it can be a …

[PDF][PDF] Anthropometrical and fitness level changes following a 12-week walking football program for obese primary school children aged 8-11

Z Jaafar, J Kee, H Abdul Hadi, NA Ahmad Tajuddin - Med Sport, 2018 - researchgate.net
walking football game to obese primary school childrenprogram. METHODS: This
was a cohort repeated-measures study involving 32 healthy male school children aged 8-11-year-old

Promoting walking to school: results of a quasi-experimental trial

R McKee, N Mutrie, F Crawford… - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2007 - jech.bmj.com
… and were assisted to use the mapping programme to record the following information: … An
online computerised questionnaire that was successfully used with older children was adapted …

Effects of the Fitkids exercise therapy program on health-related fitness, walking capacity, and health-related quality of life

EMW Kotte, JF de Groot, AMF Winkler… - Physical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… that anthropometric variables that were deemed to influence the SLJ, such as leg length,
weight, and body mass index, did not contribute to SLJ performance in 9- to 12-year-old children