Understanding the determinants of physical activity behavior in children and youths is essential to the design and implementation of intervention studies to increase physical activity. Objective methods to assess physical activity behavior using various types of motion detectors have been recommended as an alternative to self-report for this population because ...
Background: This pragmatic evaluation investigated the effectiveness of the Children’s Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!) Project, a cluster randomised intervention to promote healthy weight using an educational focus on physical activity and healthy eating. Methods: Participants (n = 318, aged 10–11 years) from 6 Intervention and 6 Comparison schools took part in ...
Background: We conducted a comparative effectiveness analysis to evaluate the difference in the amount of physical activity children engaged in when enrolled in a physical activity-enhanced after-school program (ASP) based in a community recreation center versus a standard school-based ASP. Methods: The study was a natural experiment with 54 elementary school ...
Background: Eating breakfast is believed to promote a healthy body weight. Yet, few studies have examined the contribution of energy balance–related behavioral factors to this relation in minority youth. Objective: We assessed the associations between breakfast consumption and dietary intake, physical activity (PA), and adiposity before and after accounting ...
Commentary: Britt Johnson, National Heart Foundation Encouraging children to actively commute to school is a public health strategy that helps to incorporate physical activity into daily life. This paper presents the results of a longitudinal investigation into the individual, socio-cultural and environmental predictors of active commuting to school amongst 9-10 ...
Aim: The benefits of promoting physical activity (PA) in counteracting the high prevalence of childhood obesity have become increasingly important in the past decade. The aim of this study was to examine the association between compliance of daily PA recommendations and the risk of being overweight or obese in preschool-aged ...
Background: Increasing school-day physical activity through policy and programs is commonly suggested to prevent obesity and improve overall child health. However, strategies that focus on school-day physical activity may not increase total physical activity if youth compensate by reducing physical activity outside of school. Purpose: Objectively measured, nationally representative physical ...
Purpose Understanding fluctuations in lifestyle indicators is important to identify relevant time periods to intervene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle; however, objective assessment of multiple lifestyle indicators has never been done using a repeated-measures design. The primary aim was, therefore, to examine between-season and within-week variation in physical ...
Introduction In order to obtain accurate estimates of sedentary time and physical activity in young children objective methods are needed. Wrist worn accelerometers have shown good feasibility among participants in previous studies. The acceleration signal collected by many commercially available activity monitors is usually summarized in an arbitrary unit (counts). ...
Purpose An active lifestyle is crucial for co-morbidity prevention in pediatric cardiac transplant patients(CTxP). The purpose of this study was to evaluate daily physical activity in CTxP and to identify relationships between anthropometric measurements, cardiac function and physical activity habits. Methods Anthropometric measures and resting 2D echocardiograms were obtained. ...