Barber, Sally E.
Bingham, Daniel D.
Dawkins, Nathan P.
Helme, Zoe
Hall, Jennifer
Seims, Amanda
Santorelli, Gillian
Wright, John
McEachan, Rosie RC
Burkhardt, Jan
Daly-Smith, Andy
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sport England
NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration
Bristol Biomedical Research Centre
UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037527/1)
UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037527/1)
Article History
Received: 22 May 2025
Accepted: 19 November 2025
First Online: 7 December 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the University of Bradford Research Ethics Committee (Humanities, Social, and Health Sciences Research Ethics Panel; reference: E891, July 2021). All procedures involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Parents/carers provided informed consent for their child to participate, and verbal assent was obtained from all children on the day of data collection.
: Not applicable.
: SEB and JW sit on the Directors and Members Boards of Active Bradford respectively. JW was not directly involved in the development or delivery of the intervention. SEB, JH, AS, and ADS were involved in the evidence-based development of JU: MP but not the operational delivery of the intervention. JB was the Implementation Director for the JU: MP whole system approach and was directly responsible for the delivery of JU: MP but was not involved in data collection or analysis. DDB, ZH, GS, and RRCM declare no competing interests. The authors declare that they have no other competing interests.