Policy Brief on Promoting Physical Activity among Adolescents

Regular physical activity (pa) is an underlying factor since childhoodand adolescence for having a healthy and active future for life. theaim of this stud y was to review the evidence on increasing theyouth pa to develop the national program at country level. atfirst, the databases were searched using the sensitive keywords, andsystematic reviews of the relevant databases were extracted. thestudies were evaluated in terms of relevance and methodologicalquality for effective interventions that were detected. these caseswere also identified in the effective interventions: disadvantages,benefits, costs, methods, and limitations of early studies, which werebased on systematic review of the studies. three interventions wereidentified as physical education curriculum reform, the creation ofextra-curricular activities, as well as approaches to environmentaland social support. evidences showed that the relative impact ofthese interventions were not high. thus, a combination of all threeoptions of integrated approach is recommended for reducing thesedentary lifestyle of youths.