{"id":86,"date":"2010-03-21T22:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:56:30","slug":"novelty-or-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/03\/21\/novelty-or-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelty or reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Snakes and ladders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groundsplash.com.au\/images\/snakes%20&amp;%20ladders%201-49%20w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"68\" \/>There&#8217;s a rather old study of playground renovation that&#8217;s been re-circulating recently (via Twitter, via @drbengoldacre and @cebmblog) which claims to demonstrate that really fancy multicoloured markings in primary school playgrounds get kids moving much more.<!--more-->Well, the <a title=\"Preventative Medicine Full Text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/B6WPG-4H0S174-2\/2\/4992bb498a48418150f4ef9126820310\">study <\/a>did compare 4 schools that had the fancy upgrade with 4 who didn&#8217;t, they randomly selected pupils to measure and used fancy gadgets to judge activity levels. And the brightly painted school playgrounds encouraged importantly and significantly more exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230;\u00a0 it was the first two months back at school. What would have happened if the playground hadn&#8217;t been &#8220;painted in bright fluorescent colours that varied according to school  preference, although castles, dragons, clock faces, mazes, fun trails,  dens, hopscotch, letter squares, snakes and ladders, and various animals  were consistently popular&#8221; and just repainted with a few black-and-white games of snakes and ladders, hopscotch and clock faces? Did the extra enthusiasm for play last into the summer?<\/p>\n<p>Does this study support painting school yards fluorescent colours, or just painting school yards?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rather old study of playground renovation that&#8217;s been re-circulating recently (via Twitter, via @drbengoldacre and @cebmblog) which claims to demonstrate that really fancy multicoloured markings in primary school playgrounds get kids moving much more. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/03\/21\/novelty-or-reality\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service-organisation","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}