Background Ineffective family interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity have, in part, been attributed to the challenges of reaching and engaging parents. With a particular focus on parent engagement, this study utilized community-based participatory research to develop and pilot test a family-centered intervention for low-income families with preschool-aged children ...
Aim This study aimed to compare the levels of objectively-measured sedentary behavior in children attending Montessori preschools with those attending traditional preschools.
Methods The participants in this study were preschool children aged 4 years old who were enrolled in Montessori and traditional preschools. The preschool children wore ActiGraph accelerometers. Accelerometers were ...
Aim The aim was to evaluate seasonal variations in physical activity. This study is part of the pilot phase of the Finnish Schools on the Move program in 2010-2012.
Methods The study population consisted of 119 boys and girls from grades 1 to 9 (7 to 15 years of age) from 6 schools. Children's physical activity ...
Background To promote physical activity (PA) among children, few studies have reported long-term effects of playground markings during school recess. [1]
Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of a playground design on children's recess PA across 18 months and to evaluate the influence of covariates on the ...
Aim The purpose of the present study was to analyse differences in blood pressure between different levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) controlling for the influences of age, sex, waist circumference (WC) and objectively measured physical activity levels (PA).
Methods Participants were 405 students aged 10-19 years (239 girls and 166 boys) from North ...
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Understanding trends and tracking of children's physical activity (PA) could help to optimise the type and timing of interventions designed to make children more active. The aims of this longitudinal study were to establish the age at which PA levels begin to fall and to determine whether inactivity in ...
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This study evaluated objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time among Finnish schoolaged children from grades 1 to 6 (ages 7 to 12 years) and compared the results between boys and girls, and between different age groups.
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The study population consisted of 568 Finnish boys and girls from grades 1 to 6 (mean age 9.9 years, ...
Aim The school setting as basis for physical activity (PA) interventions has been highly promoted as ideal since any benefits from such interventions targeting children from all segments of the population potentially could contribute to alleviating social inequality in health. This study relies on data from the CHAMPS-study DK which ...
Aim Some studies have analyzed the relation between sedentary behavior (SB) and body composition in children and adolescents. However most of the studies have used self-reported measures of SB and/or did not consider the potential confounding effect of physical activity in their analysis. The aim of this study was ...
Aim To examine the magnitude of associations between objectively-measured PA subcomponents and sedentary time with body composition in a large free-living population cohort of preschool children.
Methods This was a cross-sectional study of 398 preschool children recruited from the Southampton Women's Survey. PA was measured by accelerometry and body composition by ...