Increasing girls’ physical activity during an organised youth sport basketball camp: A randomised controlled trial

The UWS School Holiday Basketball Program is a five-day basketball program assessing whether coaches who attended coach education sessions can increase their female athletes' moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and reduce their time spent inactive. Half of the coaches enrolled will attend two coach education sessions following the first two days of the UWS School Holiday Basketball Program; lasting approximately two hours each session. Coach education sessions will only run on the first two days of the program. During these sessions, strategies to increase MVPA and decrease inactivity will be discussed. Coaches will also receive feedback on the physical activity levels of the athletes they coached during the program that day; as well as lesson context information based on a direct observation system (System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time; McKenzie, Sallis, & Nader, 1991). The use of feedback allows coaches to see how active their athletes were and how they're spending their time during training (in what lesson contexts). The aims of the coach education sessions, then, are to assist coaches in identifying areas of their training sessions where it is likely they can incorporate more physical activity at a moderate-to-vigorous intensity and decrease the time spent inactive. Intervention coaches will continue to receive feedback on the physical activity levels of the athletes as well as their lesson context information at the end of each day of the five-day program. A researcher will discretely deliver the feedback form to intervention coaches at the end of each program day.