Intervention Effects of the School-Based Health Promotion Program “Join the Healthy Boat” on Motor Abilities of Children with Migration Background

The foundation for an active and healthy lifestyle is laid in childhood, and regular physical activity participation during childhood has numerous positive effects on children’s healthy growth, as well as their motor, emotional and social development. However, studies showed that migrant status affects children’s activity levels and motor abilities negatively. In this context, this paper focuses on the intervention effects of increasing daily PA regarding children’s motor skills. It is found that the school-based health promotion program “Join the Healthy Boat” could achieve an improvement of motor abilities of children with migration background after one-year of intervention. However, boys obtained better results than girls in the motor tests.

Article by researchers from Ulm University Medical Centre, Germany.

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