Karly S. Geller

TL;DR: The Transtheoretical Model has the potential to advance the public health impact of future PA promotion interventions and is presented within the PA context to discuss its application and usefulness to researchers and practitioners.

TL;DR: The HOP'N program had a positive impact on overweight/obese children's physical activity sessions and after-school active recreation time and change in age- and gender-specific body mass index z-scores across the school year and PA during after- school time measured by accelerometers.

TL;DR: The quality of after-school programs can be improved by providing fruits and vegetables as snacks; offering more free play activities; training the after- School staff in simple, structured games for use in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings; and training after- school staff to promote and model MVPA and HE in and out of the after -school setting.

TL;DR: MHBC is thought to occur through shared co-variation of underlying motivating mechanisms, but how these relationships influence behavior remains unclear and a better understanding of the relationship between behaviors and the related motivating mechanisms is needed.

TL;DR: Although PARs varied slightly over ethnicity, the findings do not support ethnic-specific prevention strategies; interventions targeted at multiple behaviors are needed in all ethnic groups.