Burn 2 Learn: The Program and Its Impact on Mental Health and Physical Literacy

People with disability are shown to have low activity levels and health status (WHO,
2022). Physical literacy is seen as a possible gateway to lifelong physical activity
participation, and could therefore play a role in enhancing health among different
populations. Yet, this assumption is lacking sufficient evidence (Cornish et al., 2020).
A research group from the University of Newcastle in Australia has developed a school-
based intervention to promote physical activity among other health-related outcomes
in senior school students. Building on their previous studies (e.g., Lubans et al., 2021),
the present study aims to investigate the role of physical literacy in the well-established
association between physical activity and health. The mediating effects of autonomous
motivation, competence, and confidence as constructs of physical literacy, will be
examined in the association between intervention-induced changes and health-related
outcomes in adolescents with disability. Therefore, structural equation modelling will
be used to analyse data from the Australian 9-month Burn 2 Learn adapted cluster
randomised controlled trial (n = 255), developed and carried out by the research group
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from the University of Newcastle.