scholarly journals Physical activity of school children and youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
LESZEK TOMACZKOWSKI ◽  
JOANNA KLONOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Children ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Individual Needs

Physical activity is a key element of a healthy lifestyle, especially in relation to children and adolescents. It is crucial for proper physical, psychological and social development. Systematic physical activity tailored to individual needs stimulates development in childhood and adolescence and increases health resources. Background: ‪PAn insufficient level of physical activity among children and adolescents, in comparison to the needs, is a problem occurring more and more commonly on a global scale. It has been confirmed in numerous research studies.

scholarly journals Results From Brazil’s 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (s2) ◽  
pp. S104-S109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Nardo ◽  
Diego Augusto Santos Silva ◽  
Gerson Luis de Moraes Ferrari ◽  
Edio Luiz Petroski ◽  
Ricardo Lucas Pacheco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Incomplete Data ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Report Card ◽  
Active Transportation ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Sufficient Data ◽  
Brazilian Children

Background:Very few studies have comprehensively analyzed the physical activity of children and adolescents in Brazil. The purpose of this article is to show the methodology and summarize findings from the first Brazilian Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth.Methods:Three Brazilian research institutions coordinated the activities to develop the Brazilian 2016 Report Card. The data available were collected independently and then synthesized by the Research Work Group using the grade system developed for the First Global Matrix released in 2014, which included 9 indicators of physical activity. Where possible, grades were assigned based on the percentage of children and youth meeting each indicator: A is 81% to 100%; B is 61% to 80%; C is 41% to 60%; D is 21% to 40%; F is 0% to 20%; INC is incomplete data.Results:Among the 9 indicators, only 5 had sufficient data for grading. Overall Physical Activity received a C- grade, Active Transportation received a C+ grade, Sedentary Behavior received a D+ grade, and Government Strategies and Investments received a D grade.Conclusions:The low grades observed highlight the need for continued efforts aimed at improving physical activity in Brazilian children.

scholarly journals Indicators to Assess Physical Health of Children and Adolescents in Activity Research—A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10711
Author(s):  
Simon Kolb ◽  
Alexander Burchartz ◽  
Doris Oriwol ◽  
Steffen C. E. Schmidt ◽  
Alexander Woll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Body Composition ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence

Sufficient physical activity can help promote and maintain health, while its lack can jeopardize it. Since health and physical activity lay their foundation for later life in childhood and adolescence, it is important to examine this relationship from the beginning. Therefore, this scoping review aims to provide an overview of physical health indicators in children and adolescents in research on the effects of physical activity and sedentary behavior. We identified the indicators used to quantify or assess physical health and summarized the methods used to measure these indicators. We systematically searched Scopus, Pubmed, and Web of Science databases for systematic reviews. The search yielded 4595 records from which 32 records were included in the review. The measurements for physical health reported in the reviews contained measures of body composition, cardiometabolic biomarkers, physical fitness, harm/injury, or bone health. Body composition was the most used indicator to assess and evaluate physical health in children, whereas information on harm and injury was barely available. In future research longitudinal studies are mandatory to focus on the prospective relationships between physical activity or sedentary behavior, and physical health.

scholarly journals Estudos acerca da postura em crianças e adolescentes em fase escolar: relação com hábitos de vida

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lais Lie Orita ◽  
Daniel Vicentini de Oliveira ◽  
Maura Fernandes Franco ◽  
José Lima
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Children ◽  
Phase Relationship ◽  
Spinal Pain ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Postural Changes ◽  
Life Habits ◽  
The Ideal

As alterações posturais e dores na coluna vertebral em crianças e adolescentes são apontadas como multicausais. Um dos fatores mais destacados em relatos científicos refere-se aos hábitos relacionados às atividades escolares. Este estudo teve como objetivo apresentar estudos acerca da postura de crianças e adolescentes em fase escolar e sua relação com os hábitos nessa fase da vida. Foi realizada uma revisão de literatura por meio de buscas em periódicos nacionais e internacionais indexados nas bases de dados Scielo, Lilacs e Pubmed, bem como livros didáticos, sem limitação de ano para a busca. Os descritores utilizados foram: coluna vertebral, escolares, infância e adolescência, mochila escolar, hábitos posturais, no idioma português, espanhol e inglês. A maior parte dos estudos avaliados apresentaram dor e diversas alterações posturais em crianças em fase escolar, sendo que, alguns destes, conseguiram relacionar o uso de mochila com peso acima do ideal, com variáveis de saúde.ABSTRACT. Studies about posture in children and adolescents in school phase: relationship with life habits. Postural changes and spinal pain in children and adolescents are indicated as multicausal. One of the most prominent factors in scientific reports relates to habits related to school activities. This study aimed to present studies about the posture of children and adolescents in the school phase and its relationship with habits in this phase of life. A review of the literature was made through searches in national and international journals indexed in the Scielo, Lilacs and Pubmed databases, as well as textbooks, with no year limitation for the search. The descriptors used were: spine, school, childhood and adolescence, school backpack, posture habits, in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Most of the studies evaluated presented pain and several postural changes in school children, and some of them were able to relate the use of a backpack with weight above the ideal, with health variables.

scholarly journals Relationship between Primary School Children’s Physical Fitness, Physical Activity and their Parents’ Physical Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (117) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Vainauskas ◽  
Laurynas Dilys ◽  
Saulius Šukys ◽  
Brigita Miežienė ◽  
Arūnas Emeljanovas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Tennis Ball ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Parental Physical Activity ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Background. Healthy lifestyle skills instilled in childhood remain into adulthood. Parental physical activity skills are directly related to their children’s physical activity which strengthens their children’s physical fitness. The aim of the study was to determine and evaluate the relationship between parents’ and children’s physical activity and to evaluate the links between children’s physical activity and physical fitness.Methods. The study involved 486 primary school children aged 7 to 10 years (240 boys and 241 girls) and their parents from Kaunas district. The study was conducted in 2018 in Kaunas district schools. Parental physical activity was assessed using Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire-GLTEQ (Godin & Shephard, 1985). Physical activity of primary school children was assessed by submitting a questionnaire to parents developed by researchers Bacardi-Gascón, Reveles-Roy, Woodward-Lopez, Crawford, and Jiménez-Cruz (2012). Schoolchildren’s physical fitness was assessed by 9 physical fitness tests (Fjørtoft, Pedersen, Sigmundsson, & Vereijken, 2011).Results. Having assessed the physical activity of children according to WHO (2010) recommendations, we found that the vast majority of the surveyed children (93.6% of boys and 86.3 of girls) were physically active, i.e. they engaged in physical activity for more than 1 hour during the day. Comparing the schoolchildren’s physical fitness by gender we found that boys were more physically fit than girls when performing long jumps, two-legged jumps, throwing a tennis ball, and running for six minutes (p < .05). Comparing the results of schoolchildren’s physical fitness by grades (Table 3), we observed that the older children were, the more physically fit they were. Correlation analysis of the research results showed a statistically significant direct relationship between father’s and mother’s physical activity (r = .487, p = .0001). A significant relationship was found between the results of children’s physical activity and tennis ball throwing (r = .170, p = .018) and the results of 10 * 5m running tests (r = –.150, p = .019). Higher physical activity was directly associated with better scores on these tests.Conclusion. Schoolchildren’s and their parents’ physical activity has no relation with schoolchildren’s physical fitness.Keywords: healthy, lifestyle, physical activity, physical fitness.

scholarly journals No More Bricks in the Wall: Adopting Healthy Lifestyles through Physical Education Classes

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 4860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Trigueros ◽  
Adolfo J. Cangas ◽  
José M. Aguilar-Parra ◽  
Joaquín F. Álvarez ◽  
Alexandre García-Más
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physically Active

Despite the multiple benefits associated with practicing physical activity regularly, less than 20% of the population do it on a daily basis. Physical education classes could contribute, during childhood and adolescence, to consolidating adherence to healthy lifestyle habits. The present study involved 606 secondary school students between the ages of 13 and 19. We analysed the relationships between the perception of psychological control and support for autonomy, the satisfaction and frustration of psychological needs, mind-wandering and mindfulness, positive and negative emotions, motivation towards physical education classes, physical activity and the intention to be physically active—all through a structural equation model, which presented acceptable goodness-of-fit indices. The results showed that students who feel more autonomous see that their psychological needs are met and feel emotionally positive; this will result in the development of autonomous motivation towards physical education classes and physical activity that, in turn, could lead to a greater intention to be physically active.

Promoting participation in physical activity among children and adolescents with Down syndrome

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E Wentz ◽  
Julia Looper ◽  
Kristi S Menear ◽  
Dipika Rohadia ◽  
Nora Shields
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome

Abstract Children with Down syndrome often have lower physical activity levels compared to their peers with typical development and face challenges such as medical co-morbidities, access issues and societal stigma, to being physically active. Physical therapists are experts in exercise prescription and physical activity and are thus uniquely qualified to successfully promote participation among children with Down syndrome in spite of inherent challenges. Our perspective is that a shift in physical therapy service delivery is needed. We suggest that physical therapists change the focus of their interventions for children with Down syndrome from underlying impairments such as low tone or joint laxity, or from developing motor skills in isolation and ‘correct’ movement patterns. Instead, physical therapists should allow the physical activity preferences and the environmental contexts of the children and adolescents they are working with to direct the treatment plan. In this way, physical therapy intervention becomes more child centered by concentrating on developing the specific skills and strategies required for success in the child’s preferred physical activity. In this paper, we consider the role of pediatric physical therapists in the United States, as well as in low- and middle- income countries, in promoting and monitoring physical activity in children with Down syndrome from infancy through adolescence. Examples of physical therapist interventions such as tummy time, movement exploration, treadmill training, bicycle riding and strength training are discussed, across infancy, childhood and adolescence, with a focus on how to successfully promote lifelong participation in physical activity.

Perceptions of Inclusivity: The 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Handler
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Telephone Interview ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation Theory ◽  
Secondary Purpose

In June 2016, Tremblay et al. published the first 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth. These guidelines integrate the daily requirements for physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep into one comprehensive resource. Children with disabilities are less active and more sedentary than able-bodied individuals. Thus, it is important that health resources are developed and marketed to be inclusive and accessible to this population. The primary purpose of the study is to explore whether parents consider the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth inclusive for children with disabilities. The secondary purpose is to assess whether these perceptions influence the decision to implement the guidelines. One 60-minute semi-structured in-person or telephone interview will be conducted with parents of children with disabilities. The diffusion of innovation theory will provide a theoretical basis for the interview questions and a thematic analysis will be used to analyze the results.

Non-communicable diseases in childhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 200-203
Author(s):  
Jessica Mvula ◽  
Takondwa Chimowa ◽  
Elizabeth Molyneux ◽  
Bernadette O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sickle Cell Disease ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
Unhealthy Diet

The focus is on the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low and middle-income countries, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell disease. It reviews the burden of disease, the global targets, and the challenges in prevention, screening, diagnosis, and management, largely due to limited resources and their low priority relative to other conditions. The chapter proposes a life-course approach to the prevention of adult NCDs due to tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diet, and lack of physical activity, as lifestyle habits are often established in childhood and adolescence. The importance of government policies to prioritise prevention of NCDs by limiting the sale of harmful products using tax policies and the use of the revenue generated to promote healthy lifestyle and to strengthen health systems is emphasised.

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