Participating in regular physical activity has been reported to be associated with health benefits for children and adolescents. Physical activity (PA) and motor ability (MA) are interlinked and both aspects are important and essential components for everyday activities and can influence a child’s general development. Purpose a) analyse the ...
Background: The afterschool period holds promise for the promotion of physical activity, yet little is known about the importance of this period as children age. Purpose: To examine changes in physical activity of children aged 5–6 years and 10–12 years and their sedentary time in the afterschool period over 3 and 5 years, and ...
Accelerometers are gaining popularity as an objective measure of sedentary behaviour. Limited evidence exists however on the validity of different cut points used to define sedentary time, or on the inclinometer function seen in newer models of the ActiGraph accelerometer. Purpose: To determine the concurrent validity of the ActiGraph GT3...
PURPOSE: To determine the relationships between objectively measured and self-reported physical activity, sedentary behavior, and academic performance in Finnish children. METHODS: Two hundred seventy-seven children from five schools in the Jyvaskyla school district in Finland (58% of the 475 eligible students; mean age 12.2 years; 56% girls) participated in the study in the spring ...
The purpose of this review was to examine the factors that predict the development of excessive fatness in children and adolescents. Medline, Web of Science and PubMed were searched to identify prospective cohort studies that evaluated the association between several variables (e.g. physical activity, sedentary behaviour, dietary intake and ...
PURPOSE: To determine whether time spent in objectively measured physical activity is associated with change in body mass index (BMI) from ages 9 to 15. DESIGN AND METHODS: The participants were enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 938). At ...
Background The risk factors for chronic disease, smoking, poor nutrition, hazardous alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and weight (SNAPW) are common in primary health care (PHC) affording opportunity for preventive interventions. Community nurses are an important component of PHC in Australia. However there has been little research evaluating the effectiveness of ...
Background School-based interventions that target prevention of overweight and obesity in children have been tested with mixed results. Thus, successful interventions are still called for. The aim of the present study was to investigate effects of a multicomponent school-based intervention programme targeting physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviours on anthropometric ...
There is limited evidence on objectively measured physical activity from Africa. This study quantified physical activity by accelerometry in rural South African children at ages 7, 11, and 15 years. Total physical activity was generally high (mean accelerometer counts per minute ranged 485–1017 across the 3 groups), but moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity was low: &...
Background An evidence-based steps/day translation of U.S. federal guidelines for youth to engage in ≥60 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) would help health researchers, practitioners, and lay professionals charged with increasing youth’s physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to determine the number of ...