Aineiston nimi

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

Aineistonumero

FSD3446

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3446
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3446

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 in Finland. It was conducted as a cluster-randomised parallel group trial. This dataset consists of vocational school teachers' responses to three surveys on the 'Let's Move It' programme, practices and intervention measures relating to students' physical activity and sedentariness (sitting) during lessons, and opinions on and experiences of the programme. The research was funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM/81/626/2014) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (201310238).

The schools participating in the study were divided into intervention and control group schools. Therefore the participating teachers belonged either to the intervention or the control group. The intervention group participated in three 'Let's Move It' workshops. The surveys were conducted three times over the study period, partly repeating the same questions.

The initial survey charted methods used during lessons to reduce students' sedentary time, time intervals of using the methods, the proportion of students who took the opportunity, the average time students were sedentary during one lesson, and the ways the teacher motivated them to reduce sedentariness. Further questions investigated views on what was too long a time for an uninterrupted sedentary period, the impact of reducing sedentariness during lessons, and the teacher's intention to take measures to reduce students' sedentary time over the following month. Workplace atmosphere and co-operation were also surveyed.

The follow-up surveys contained also some new questions. In addition to intentions for the following month, they also surveyed the teacher's goals, plans and monitoring related to student sedentary behaviour, and the measures taken over the last month to reduce it. Open-ended questions charted changes noticed in the methods used by the school in general and other teachers.

The intervention group surveys also asked the respondents to evaluate 'Let's Move It' workshops, programme and its materials. The use of sit-stand desks (height adjustable desks) and physical training equipment such as gym balls was investigate.

Background variable included the respondent's gender, year of birth, years of working as a teacher, type of classroom in use, subject R taught and whether R belonged to the intervention or the control group.

Asiasanat

exercise (physical activity); motivation; physical activities; students; teachers; teaching materials; teaching methods; 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

Teachers in upper secondary vocational schools participating in the 'Let's Move It' programme in the Helsinki Metropolitan area, Finland

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. There were 117 teachers in the intervention schools and 116 in the control group schools. Out of these, 77 (intervention) and 46 (control group) teachers chose to participate in the study by completing the initial survey.

All participating teachers responded to three online surveys: the initial survey at the beginning of the study, the first follow-up survey two months later and the second follow-up survey 14 months later.

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)

Field/Intervention experiment

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

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

FSD3445 Intervention Study on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behaviour of Vocational Students: Student Surveys, Body Composition Measurements and Accelerometer Data 2015-2017

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Researchers had anonymised the data, for instance, by removing the variables containing names. To maintain confidentiality, the data archive removed open-ended variables Q6 and Q7 (teacher's education and school). In addition, the archive checked the remaining open-ended responses in the data, removing any identifying information. The parts anonymised by the archive have been marked with [square brackets].

Variables have been named as follows: variables beginning with the letter Q are from the initial survey, letter F indicates the first follow-up survey and the letter T the second follow-up survey. Variables based on questions asked only from the intervention group teachers end with the letter I and those asked only from the control group teachers end with C.

Attached questionnaire files (in Finnish) have been named as follows: numbers 1-3 reveal whether it is the initial survey, the first follow-up or the second follow-up survey. For the follow-up surveys, the file name includes c if aimed at the control group and i if aimed at the intervention group. For instance, qu3446_2c_fin.

One case was removed from the archived data as the participant did not give consent to archiving. All variables based on the question group T30 included in the second follow-up survey for the intervention group were removed due to incorrect values.

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: Teacher Surveys 2015-2017 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2021-04-15). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3446

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.

Muu materiaali

Katso ladattavat tiedostot sivun ylälaidasta.

More information on the 'Let's move it' programme in Finnish.

A general description of the programme and a material bank produced by the research project for educational purposes (in Finnish).

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