Browsing by Author "Martin, Rosemarie"
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Active classrooms: Development and evaluation of a movement integration intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children
Martin, Rosemarie (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Physical inactivity is recognised as an international public health issue with less than 20% of children globally achieving the recommended 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day for health ... -
The clustering of physical activity and screen time behaviours in early childhood and impact on future health-related behaviours: a longitudinal analysis of children aged 3 to 8 years
Martin, Rosemarie; Murphy, Joey; Molina-Soberanes, Daniel; Murtagh, Elaine M (BMC, 2022-03-21)Meeting physical activity and screen time guidelines has been associated with improved health in children. Research has shown that lifestyle behaviours happen in combination and can be tracked into later life. Thus, a ... -
Effect of active lessons on physical activity, academic and health outcomes: A systematic review (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2017)Purpose. To conduct a systematic review of classroom-based PA interventions which integrate academic content and assess the effectiveness of the interventions on PA, learning, facilitators of learning, and health outcomes. ... -
An intervention to improve the physical activity levels of children: Design and rationale of the ‘Active Classrooms’ cluster randomised controlled trial (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Elsevier, 2015)Background: Recent evidence demonstrates that children are not engaging in the recommended 60mins of moderate to vigorous PA per day. PA interventions have been acknowledged by the WHO (2010) as a key strategy to increase ... -
Measurement and prevalence of adult physical activity levels in Arab countries
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine M; Rmeileh, Niveen Abu; Shalash, Aisha (Elsevier, 2021-07)Physical activity (PA) has a profound effect on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk for mortality, responsible for raising the risk of ... -
Playful maths! The influence of play-based learning on academic performance of Palestinian primary school children
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine M; Sawalma, Jamil (Springer, 2022-02-11)This study explores the relationship between play-based learning and achievement in mathematics in Palestinian elementary school children. Forty teachers from eight schools received training in play-based pedagogies and ... -
Preliminary findings of Active Classrooms: An intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children during class time (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Elsevier, 2015)This study evaluates the effects of a behaviour change intervention, which encourages the integration of PA into the teaching of academic lessons, on PA levels of students. The main outcome is mean minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Elsevier, 2017)This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ...