Publication: Implementing movement integration across the whole school: findings from the Moving to Learn Ireland programme. Elaine Murtagh et al. 2021

Publication: Implementing movement integration across the whole school: findings from the Moving to Learn Ireland programme. Elaine Murtagh et al. 2021
Research Impact Summary: This publication details the methods used in a set of systematic reviews. One of these systematic reviews is in preprint while three others are being prepared by research teams across Europe, including at […]
Research Impact Summary Policies that support physical activity (PA) in the school-setting have promise but their impact is poorly understood. Nine policy action areas for which there was evidence of impact were identified. These were […]
If you haven’t bought equipment for your “home gym” by this point in the pandemic, I doubt you’ll need it just for a final few weeks of lockdown (please hopefully). Save your money for that […]
Research Impact: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a significant public health problem, but most people with AUD never seek treatment. Exercise is increasingly used in AUD treatment, but less is known about short-term effects. Here, […]
Research Impact: We examined unstudied associations between subclinical anxiety disorder symptoms and status and potential mediating effects of social physique anxiety among 470 young adults (298 female). Symptoms and odds of Analogue Generalized Anxiety Disorder […]
Research Impact: Multi-level random effects meta-analysis of 111 studies of >3mil adults from showed that odds of incident cases or an increase in subclinical depressive symptoms were reduced after physical activity exposure by 21% in […]
The Active School Flag, a whole-school physical activity promotion initiative, has been offered to primary schools in Ireland since 2009. This programme was developed by the Department of Education and is supported by the Department […]
Research Impact: We determined the self-reported prevalence of meeting US physical activity guidelines, stratified by sitting time, during the early lockdown phase of COVID-19 (April 3rd – May 4th, 2020) among 5,036 US adults (65.3% […]
Schools have the ability to reach a wide range of children from across the population regardless of social background and over a continuous period of time (Anderson, 2016) making them a key gatekeeper for important […]