Peter Elsborg

Biographic Data

ID4638606
NAMEPeter Elsborg
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEElsborg
SIGNATUREELSBORG P
AFFILIATIONSFrederiksberg Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-1770-2274
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Physical activity during education outside the classroom and its associations with pupils’ psychological need satisfaction and intrinsic school motivation

    Open AccessSara Rudbæk Larsen, Silje Mikkelsen et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2026

    Pupils’ physical activity (PA) and motivation for learning decline through the school years, prompting interest in approaches that sustain engagement while supporting psychological and physical health. Education outside the classroom (EOtC) has been associated with higher intrinsic motivation and PA. However, it remains unclear whether improvements in motivation for school during EOtC associate with observed PA levels. This study examined whether…

  • Youth-led community street sport in practice

    Julie Hellesøe Christensen, Clara Heinze et al.ARTICLESport Education and Society2026References: 37

    Peer-led sport programmes can provide supportive social relations and opportunities for role modelling and identification. These features can support the inclusion of groups who usually do not participate in sport activities and provide an environment that fosters personal and social development. However, it is important to assess the implementation of peer-led activities to understand whether such potentials are fulfilled. Therefore, we investig…

  • Education outside the classroom for children with neurodevelopmental disorders in special needs education settings—A scoping review

    Open AccessMichelle Stahlhut, T T Amholt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are at higher risk of chronic health conditions, low physical activity, poor academic skills, and limited school participation. Outdoor education, especially the school-based ‘education outside the classroom’ (EOtC), has shown benefits for non-disabled students, enhancing social, academic, and physical outcomes. However, studies in special needs outdoor education settings are scarce. As an initial …

  • Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries

    Open AccessJohannes Carl, Hannah Go et al.ARTICLEJournal of Curriculum Studies2025

    Although the student-centred concept of physical literacy (PL) has been emphasized by UNESCO, knowledge about its adoption/implementation into PE remains scant. Therefore, the goal of this study was to evaluate and compare the compatibility of PE curricula with PL in Europe. We collaboratively gathered a panel of experts encompassing 40 European countries. In the first step, the experts were invited to freely specify the compatibility of country’…

  • Enabling six- to ten-year-old children to self-report their wellbeing and quality of life

    Open AccessMette L Kurtzhals, Paulina Sander Melby et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2025

    Based on our results, the KIDSCREEN-VIDEO provides a promising self-reported measure for wellbeing among children aged six to ten

  • A cross-sectional study of the association between food literacy and dietary intake among Danish adolescents

    Open AccessAlberte Laura Oest Müllertz, Nanna Wurr Stjernqvist et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 1References: 51

    Food literacy is theorized to be associated with healthy dietary intake. However, empirical knowledge on the association between adolescents' food literacy and dietary intake is limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between food literacy and dietary intake among Danish schoolchildren aged 11-13 years. The study applied a cross-sectional design using baseline data from a cluster-based quasi-experimental controlled study…

  • Cross-sectional associations between adolescents' physical literacy, sport and exercise participation, and wellbeing

    Open AccessPaulina Sander Melby, Peter Elsborg et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Adolescence is a significant period in one's development of positive emotional and social wellbeing. Physical literacy (PL) is considered a determinant of physical health and wellbeing and is thought to be the foundation for an individual's engagement in physical activities. Yet, limited evidence exists on PL's association with adolescents' health and physical activity behavior. This study aims to (1) explore the associations between …

  • Efficacy and mechanisms of an education outside the classroom intervention on pupils’ health and education

    Open AccessMads Bølling, Lærke Mygind et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (ID NCT05237674 ) [University of Copenhagen. MOVEOUT: a Cluster RCT of the Efficacy, Mechanisms, and Mediation of an Education Outside the Classroom Intervention on Adolescents' Physical Activity, 2023], February 14, 2022. Most recently updated on November 23, 2022 (Version 2)

  • Associations between children’s physical literacy and well-being

    Open AccessPaulina Sander Melby, Glen Nielsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The study contributes to evidence on the link between PL, physical activity, and health outcomes. The study found beneficial relations between PL and physical and psychosocial well-being. MVPA mediated part of the relationship between PL and physical well-being but not psychosocial well-being

  • Improved food literacy among schoolchildren as an effect of a food camp intervention

    Open AccessPeter Elsborg, Anne Vibeke Thorsen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 2References: 37

  • The Association between Education Outside the Classroom and Physical Activity

    Open AccessMads Bølling, Erik Mygind et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    Education outside the classroom (EOtC) has become an attractive approach, not only for learning but also for health. This explorative, cross-sectional study investigated children's sedentary behaviours (SED), light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) on school days with an EOtC session in green space compared to school days with EOtC in other environments and without EOtC. Teachers from 17 Danish school classes practised EO…

  • Exploring the importance of diversified physical activities in early childhood for later motor competence and physical activity level

    Open AccessPaulina Sander Melby, Peter Elsborg et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The results of this study indicate that diversified physical activity at age six is important for the development of MC and PA in adolescence. Increasing the diversity of children's daily physical activities, not only the amount and intensity, seems important for future PA behavior and thereby health promotion in a life course perspective

  • Associations between previous sport and exercise experience and physical literacy elements among physically inactive Danes

    Open AccessPeter Elsborg, Clara Heinze et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Previous experience with sport and exercise is very important to consider when developing sport and exercise activities for currently inactive adults as individuals with low previous experience have lower competences and autonomous motivation and therefore need lower challenges and other important attention to the motivational climate in order to ensure that the activities are motivating enough to secure continued engagement

  • Translation and validation of the Canadian assessment of physical literacy-2 in a Danish sample

    Open AccessPeter Elsborg, Paulina Sander Melby et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The translated and context-adapted Danish version of CAPL-2 is a valid and reliable measurement tool ready to use in Danish research studies

  • A Scoping Review of Peer-Led Physical Activity Interventions Involving Young People

    Open AccessJulie Hellesøe Christensen, Peter Elsborg et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2021

    The use of peer-to-peer approaches in health promotion interventions targeting youth seems to be a strategy with great potential. The aim of this study was to synthesize and assess the elements and conditions that contribute to the effectiveness of youth-led physical activity interventions. This was done using a scoping review addressing the following three research questions: What are the theoretical and intervention rationales behind peer-led p…

  • Development and validation of a food literacy instrument for school children in a Danish context

    Open AccessNanna Wurr Stjernqvist, Peter Elsborg et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021Cited by: 3References: 34

  • Dropout at Danish vocational schools

    Open AccessMaja Thøgersen, Mette Aadahl et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    No associations between VET schools' health promotion capacity and student dropout rates were observed. This may be due to a relatively short follow-up time in our study and future research may reveal if VET school health promotion capacity may affect dropout rates over a longer time period. Moreover, more work is needed to further develop instruments for measuring health promotion capacity in a VET school context as well as other contexts

  • Smoke-free-school-hours at vocational education and training schools in Denmark

    Open AccessClara Heinze, Anneke Vang Hjort et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Existing health promotion facilities and activities at the schools were associated with a favorable attitude among the management towards implementing SFSH. Thus, implementing other health promotion activities and policies might be an important first step to establish readiness to implement SFSH

  • Sports-based recreation as a means to address social inequity in health

    Open AccessPeter Elsborg, Glen Nielsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The rising global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) among people with low socioeconomic status (SES) has heightened awareness of the need for primary prevention programs in low-SES neighborhoods. Social inequity in health is apparent in mental, social and physical aspects of health among people living in low-SES neighborhoods. Viewing this problem from a life course perspective and adopting a vulnerable population approach points to the i…