Project Outline:
Children’s daily physical activity and screen time behaviours have wide-ranging impacts on their physical and psychosocial health, school performance and wellbeing.
Around half a million children attend Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) every week. Thus, OSHC is an ideal setting to positively influence the daily activity patterns of Australia children, at a formative stage of their lives.
We work with government and industry to lift the standards of physical activity and screen time offerings in OSHC. We are conducting a major implementation trial across three states (SA, WA and NSW), followed by a national dissemination study.
Principal Investigators:
- Profesor Carol Maher
- Dr Rachel Curtis
- Professor Svetlana Bagomilova
- Hayley Christian
- Professor Anthony D Okely
- Dr Nicole Nathan
- Rebecca M Stanley
- L Wolfenden
- Associate Professor Lucy LEwis
- Rachel Milte
- Dr Dylan Cliff
- RR Rosenkranz
Our partner and collaborators:
- University of Newcastle
- University of Western Australia
- Flinders University
- University of Wollongong
- University of Nevada Las Vegas
- SA Department for Education
- Healthway
- Hunter New England Local Health District
- The Australian Children’s Education and Carol Quality Authority
- National Outside School Hours Services Alliance
- Outside School Hours Council of Australia
- YMCA
- Big Fat Smiles
