Purpose To examine the physical activity levels of children with and without visual impairments (VI). We further investigated 1) whether degree of VI was associated with activity level, 2) whether body composition was associated with activity level, and 3) whether interrelationships existed between activity level and motor skill performance. Methods Ninety-six children with ...
Low physical fitness levels have been found in children with visual impairments (VI), and it has been suggested that this is partly related to low physical activity levels (Lieberman & McHugh, 2001; Kozub & Oh, 2004). Reported data which might indicate whether there is a relation between physical activity and physical fitness ...
Introduction Since low levels of PA may predispose children to obesity in later life, it is important to promote PA beginning as early as in preschool age. Structured PA sessions can be an important contributor to daily PA. In Flanders virtually all children attend preschool and preschools are obliged to ...
Purpose The aims of this study were (i) to determine Physical Activity (PA) patterns in preschool children with accelerometry in between gender and, (ii) to analyse discrepancy in the PA patterns using different epochs. Methods 45 Portuguese preschool children (25 girls, 20 boys) between the ages of 3 and 5 participated in the pilot study ...
Physical inactivity is a well documented risk factor for coronary heart disease and is associated with increased risk for other chronic diseases, including obesity, Type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, colon cancer, depression, and osteoporosis. Despite evidence on the social, health, and personal benefits of physical activity, many people still choose ...
Purpose To evaluate the differences in physical fitness and physical activity between 9- and 15-year old girls and boys in Oslo, and to evaluate the relationship of those variables with obesity. Methods Four hundred and ten 9-year olds and 347 15-year olds participated in a cross-sectional study as a part of ...
Objective To compare the physical activity levels of overweight and non overweight 3- to 5-y-old children while attending preschool. A secondary aim was to evaluate weight-related differences in hypothesized parental determinants of child physical activity behavior. Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects A total of 245, 3- to 5-y-olds (127 girls, 118 boys) and their ...
Objective To compare the physical activity (PA) patterns and the hypothesized psychosocial and environmental determinants of PA in an ethnically diverse sample of obese and non-obese middle school children. Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects One-hundred and thirty-three non-obese and 54 obese sixth grade children (mean age of 11.4±0.6). Obesity status determined using the ...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess physical activity levels and patterns from children participating in the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS) Very limited physical activity data exist that have been collected from representative samples of children and even fewer data collected where physical activity has been measured ...
The prevalence of obesity is high in American Indian children (AI) and adolescents, and there is a need for valid methods for estimating energy intake and expenditure that can be applied in large-scale epidemiological studies and prevention programs. Thus, we compared two physical activity (PA) assessment methods, accelerometry and PA ...