Aineiston nimi

Intervention Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students: Student Surveys, Body Composition Measurements and Accelerometer Data 2015-2017

Aineistonumero

FSD3445

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3445

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Hankonen, Nelli (University of Helsinki. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Haukkala, Ari (University of Helsinki)

Sisällön kuvaus

The intervention study investigated the effectiveness of the 'Let's Move It' programme aiming to increase physical activity (PA) and reduce sedentary behaviour (SB) among students in vocational schools. It was conducted as a cluster-randomised parallel group trial. This dataset consists of 1) students' responses from four self-report surveys conducted over the study period, 2) accelerometer data on the students' moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA), sedentary time and breaks in sedentary time measured during three seven-day periods over the study period, 3) the students' body composition measurements made at the beginning and end of the study period, and 4) physical activity diary data. The main themes in the surveys were the students' PA habits and motivation, SB habits, well-being, health behaviour, health status, and personality. The research was funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM/81/626/2014) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (201310238).

Students were divided into control and intervention groups. The intervention group participated in a variety of measures, such as six Let's Move It group sessions and pause exercises. They also had a possibility to use gym balls and were provided with online material and a workbook. Teachers in the schools played an active role and data were also collected from them (see FSD3446).

The four online questionnaire surveys mainly repeat the same questions. Health status was surveyed with questions on health issues, stress, smoking, eating and sleeping. Other questions charted the amount and kind of physical activity, motivation and barriers for taking exercise, measures taken for enhancing the PA motivation, future PA intentions, perceived PA impact, sedentary behaviour (sitting) and motivation for reducing SB. The surveys were conducted before the start of the programme (initial survey), and then three weeks, six weeks and 14 months after the start of the programme (intervention surveys).

Accelerometer data on MVPA, sedentary time and breaks in sedentary time were collected through students wearing an accelerometer (3-axis Hookie AM 20) fixed to an elastic belt and placed on their hip for seven consecutive days during waking hours, except during shower and other water activities. There were three such seven-day periods: before the start of the programme, at the end of the programme and six months after the end of the programme. The students also filled in paper questionnaires daily (physical activity diaries) during those seven-day periods, specifying whether they were mainly at school, working or in practical training, or at home that day, whether they had any illnesses or injuries preventing physical activity or were engaged in water activities.

Body composition measurements were made with TANITA bioimpedance measurement device (Tanita scale measurements) at two time points: before the start of the programme and six months after the end of the programme. The measurements include weight, height, body fat, body fat mass, body fat-free mass, body mass index (BMI), basal metabolic rate, total body water, bone mass, impedance, visceral fat, metabolic age, muscle mass, ECW, ICW, as well as specific measurements for torso and right and left legs and arms.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, study year, field of study, whether worked during studies, and parents' education.

Asiasanat

anthropometric data; exercise (physical activity); motivation; personality traits; physical activities; sports participation; students; vocational education institutions

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Medical and health sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• General health and well-being (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Physical fitness and exercise (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Vocational education and training (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

Kerääjät

• Hankonen, Nelli (University of Helsinki)
• Haukkala, Ari (University of Helsinki)
• Kaaja, Elisa (University of Helsinki)
• Köykkä, Katariina (University of Helsinki)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2015-01 – 2017-06

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2015-01 – 2017-06

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Helsinki Metropolitan area

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Students in their first or second study year in six upper secondary vocational schools in the Helsinki Metropolitan area, Finland (poislukien classes for students with severe physical and mental disabilities or with insufficient skills in the Finnish language, classes that had lessons only on one day a week or less often, and students for whom body composition measurements could not have been made (e.g. due to a cardiac pacemaker))

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Otantamenetelmä

Mixed probability and non-probability

Six vocational schools in the metropolitan area were selected to the study based on the fact that they had the largest number of entry-year students. Only study year 1 and 2 classes were included. Of the six schools, three schools were randomly selected to the intervention programme. The selection was made at school level to facilitate intervention and avoid contamination. Altogether, 1,240 students were invited, of whom 1,112 (89.7%) participated. The data deposited at the archive contains 1,176 cases.

Usable accelerometer data was obtained from 741 students at the first, from 521 (70,3%) students at the second and 406 (54.8%) at the third accelerometer data collection period.

More information on the study design, variables and the intervention programme development can be found in the publications Hankonen, N. et al (2016) "Let's Move It" - a school-based multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among older adolescents in vocational secondary schools: Study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial and Hankonen, N. et al. (2019). Changing activity behaviours in vocational school students: The stepwise development and optimised content of the 'Let's Move it' intervention.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Physical measurements and tests

Field/Intervention experiment

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Technical instrument(s)

Vastausprosentti

89.7

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Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3212 Pilot Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students 2014

FSD3437 Intervention Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students: Student Interviews 2015-2017

FSD3446 Intervention Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students: Teacher Surveys 2015-2017

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

To maintain privacy and confidentiality, variables containing dates of birth and name information have been removed from the archived data. Information containing group names and test supervisor variables containing name initials have also been removed. School names have been replaced with the word [educational institution]. Responses to open-ended questions been removed except for the variable k220_2 (key messages from "Let's Move It" sessions), the responses to which have been checked to exclude identifying information. One case has been removed from body composition measurement data due to outlying values.

Variables in the data have been named as follows: variables beginning with the letter K are survey responses, letter A indicates accelerometer variables, letter B indicates body composition measurement variables, BV indicates background variables and the PA diary variables are T1D1day-T4typi. The time point of the data collection is indicated by the number following the underscore. The number after the underscore: 1=the starting point before intervention, 2= three weeks later, 3=six weeks later, and 4=14 months later. For the diary variables T1D1day-T4typi, T indicates the time point and D the day when the value was given. The text 'day' or 'typi' specifies the content of the variable.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Hankonen, Nelli (University of Helsinki) & Haukkala, Ari (University of Helsinki): Intervention Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students: Student Surveys, Body Composition Measurements and Accelerometer Data 2015-2017 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2021-03-05). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3445

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Rehnström, K. (2015). Ennustaako järkeillyn käyttäytymisen lähestymistapa paikallaanoloa ja sen rajoittamista ammattiin opiskelevilla nuorilla?

Nummela, N. (2016). Persoonallisuuspiirteiden ja motivaation yhteys fyysiseen aktiivisuuteen ammattiin opiskelevilla.

Heino, M. (2016). No use reasoning with adolescents? A randomised controlled trial comparing persuasive messages.

Köykkä, K. (2017). Is habit formation effective in making students' sitting reduction a regular routine for vocational school teachers? Evaluating outcomes and habit formation processes in the Let's Move It teacher intervention.

Palsola, M. (2020). Associations between behaviour change technique use, quality of motivation and physical activity.

Heino, M. T. J., Knittle, K., Fried, E., Sund, R., Haukkala, A., Borodulin, K.... Hankonen, N. (2019). Visualisation and network analysis of physical activity and its determinants: Demonstrating opportunities in analysing baseline associations in the Let's Move It trial. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 7(1), 269-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2019.1646136

Köykkä, K., Absetz, P., Araujo-Soares, V., Knittle, K., Sniehotta, F. F., & Hankonen, N. (2019). Combining the reasoned action approach and habit formation to reduce sitting time in classrooms: Outcome and process evaluation of the Let's Move It teacher intervention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 81, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.004

Heino, M. T. J., Knittle, K., Haukkala, A., Vasankari, T., & Hankonen, N. (2018). Simple and rationale-providing SMS reminders to promote accelerometer use: a within-trial randomised trial comparing persuasive messages. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1352. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6121-2