Enhancing Upper Secondary Students’ Situational Engagement and Cognitive Prerequisites of Learning Through the Physically Active Academic Lessons Intervention: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Cluster Randomized Individual Crossover Trial
The background, design, content of the intervention, and methods of the PAAL study are presented. This study aims to address a gap in the literature regarding the feasibility and effectiveness of physically active methods during academic lessons in upper secondary school.
Authors
- Nina Salmela
- Janne Kulmala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-7983)
- Harto Hakonen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-3232)
- Susanna Takalo
- Tuomas Kukko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0160-1700)
- Hermanni Oksanen
- Pekka Räsänen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6290-3649)
- Tuija H. Tammelin
- Kati Mäkitalo
- Heidi Lindfors
- Heidi J. Syvaoja
Institutions
- University of Turku (FI)
- JAMK University of Applied Sciences (FI)
- Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (FI)
- Oulu University of Applied Sciences (FI)
- University of Oulu (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Research Protocols
- Published
- 2025-12-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/84601
- Primary Topic
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00