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. 2019 Nov 11;16(22):4400. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16224400
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a. When first approached to participate, I was very receptive to implementing the PLAY policy. 1 2 3 4 5
b. I felt adequately prepared to implement the PLAY policy. 1 2 3 4 5
c. The PLAY policy was easy to implement. 1 2 3 4 5
d. It was not easy to encourage children to engage in physical activity frequently throughout the day. 1 2 3 4 5
e. It was easy to encourage children to engage in higher intensity energetic play frequently throughout the day. 1 2 3 4 5
f. It was easy to provide children with the opportunity to achieve a minimum of 40 minutes of higher intensity energetic play each day. 1 2 3 4 5
g. It was not easy to expose children to a variety of indoor physical activities each day. 1 2 3 4 5
h. It was easy to expose children to a variety of outdoor physical activities each day. 1 2 3 4 5
i. It was easy to provide unstructured or child-directed free play each day. 1 2 3 4 5
j. It was not easy to provide structured or teacher-facilitated active play each day. 1 2 3 4 5
k. It was easy to offer a minimum of 120 minutes of outdoor time each day. 1 2 3 4 5
l. It was easy to provide the opportunity for children to engage in active play indoors when outdoor play was not possible. 1 2 3 4 5
m. It was not easy to provide shorter, more frequent outdoor play sessions. 1 2 3 4 5
n. It was easy to encourage continued energetic play through structured or teacher-led activities. 1 2 3 4 5
o. It was easy to encourage continued energetic play through teacher participation in physical activity. 1 2 3 4 5
p. It was not easy to encourage continued energetic play using verbal prompts. 1 2 3 4 5
q. It was easy to support children’s development of physical literacy through encouragement of fundamental movement skills (e.g., running, skipping, hopping, or jumping). 1 2 3 4 5
r. It was easy to avoid using my own screen-based technology when the children were present. 1 2 3 4 5
s. It was easy to avoid children’s exposure to screen-based technology during childcare hours. 1 2 3 4 5
t. It was not easy to break up children’s sedentary time by providing indoor active play opportunities. 1 2 3 4 5