RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTOR SKILLS AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

This study aimed to examine the relationship between motor skills and social skills of preschool children regarding to age, gender, and body mass indexes. A total of 160 typically developing preschool children from the 5 – 6 age groups participated in the study. The families of the children gave consent forms to participate in the study. The Test of Gross Motor Development, 3rd Edition tool (TGMD-III), and Preschool Social Skills Assessment Tool (PSSAT) were used in the study. We performed frequency and percentage analysis for descriptive statistics on the demographic characteristics of the participants. The researchers estimated the minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation values of the scales used in the study and the sub-dimensions of these scales. Skewness and kurtosis values for normality and applied Shapiro-Wilk (Normal Fit Test) were examined. We also calculated Cronbach's alpha values for the validity-reliability analysis of the Preschool Social Skills Assessment Tool. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-tests for gender and age comparisons, and Kruskal-Wallis analyses were employed to examine body mass indexes. We performed Pearson Correlation analysis to determine the relationship between motor skills and social skills. The result of the research showed that the motor skills of preschool children showed a significant difference according to the gender of the children (p<0.05). Preschool children were exposed to a significant difference according to children's ages in terms of locomotor skills and total motor skills (p<0.01). The social skills of these children revealed a statistically significant difference in line with their gender (p<0.01). On the other hand, there was no statistically significant difference according to the age of the children (p>0.05). The body mass index of preschool children's ground motor and social skills did not show a statistically significant difference according to their Body Mass Index (BMI) levels (p>0.05). Our study could not identify a meaningful relationship between motor skills and the children's social skills (p>0.05). Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0862/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Protocol for a prospective, school-based standardisation study of a digital social skills assessment tool for children: The Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions, Relationships, and Socialisation (PEERS) study

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016633 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. e016633 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Emma J Thompson ◽

Miriam H Beauchamp ◽

Simone J Darling ◽

Stephen J C Hearps ◽

Amy Brown ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Social Skills ◽

Social Problems ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Well Being ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Self Report ◽

Skills Assessment ◽

Clinical Group ◽

Social Skills Assessment

BackgroundHumans are by nature a social species, with much of human experience spent in social interaction. Unsurprisingly, social functioning is crucial to well-being and quality of life across the lifespan. While early intervention for social problems appears promising, our ability to identify the specific impairments underlying their social problems (eg, social communication) is restricted by a dearth of accurate, ecologically valid and comprehensive child-direct assessment tools. Current tools are largely limited to parent and teacher ratings scales, which may identify social dysfunction, but not its underlying cause, or adult-based experimental tools, which lack age-appropriate norms. The present study describes the development and standardisation of Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions, Relationships, and Socialisation(PEERS®), an iPad-based social skills assessment tool.MethodsThe PEERS project is a cross-sectional study involving two groups: (1) a normative group, recruited from early childhood, primary and secondary schools across metropolitan and regional Victoria, Australia; and (2) a clinical group, ascertained from outpatient services at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH). The project aims to establish normative data for PEERS®, a novel and comprehensive app-delivered child-direct measure of social skills for children and youth. The project involves recruiting and assessing 1000 children aged 4.0–17.11 years. Assessments consist of an intellectual screen, PEERS® subtests, and PEERS-Q, a self-report questionnaire of social skills. Parents and teachers also complete questionnaires relating to participants’ social skills. Main analyses will comprise regression-based continuous norming, factor analysis and psychometric analysis of PEERS® and PEERS-Q.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval has been obtained through the RCH Human Research Ethics Committee (34046), the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (002318), and Catholic Education Melbourne (2166). Findings will be disseminated through international conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Following standardisation of PEERS®, the tool will be made commercially available.

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Evaluation of vitamin D levels and body mass indexes of university employees

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science ◽

10.3329/bjms.v19i2.45000 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 229-236

Author(s):

Murat Emrah MAVİŞ ◽

Çiğdem YILDIRIMMAVİŞ ◽

İrem ÖZAY ARANCIOĞLU ◽

Hatice Kübra YILMAZ ◽

Berrak ERGÜDEN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Vitamin D ◽

Body Mass ◽

Anthropometric Measurement ◽

University Employees ◽

Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Vitamin D Levels ◽

Significant Difference ◽

25 Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Body Mass Indexes ◽

The Relationship

Objective: Vitamin D is known to have important effects on human health. The existence of a relationship between obesity and vitamin D levels, which have been shown to cause a number of health problems with various studies, is certain. In this study, the relationship between vitamin D levels and body mass indexes(BMI) of individuals was evaluated. The study is unique for being the only research on literature that carried out with university employees. Materials and methods: Blood samples, anthropometric measurement (BMI) was obtained from 87 volunteer working at Haliç University. The questionnaire form covering the basic questions applied by means of face-to-face method. Quantification of the analytes for 25-hydroxyvitamin-D was carried out using LC-MS/MS. The relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin-D values and BMI was evaluated with Tukey HSD multiple comparison test. 95% confidence and 80% power sampling were applied to the predictions of a minimum0.50 connection coefficient between 2 quantitative variables.The necessity of 30 cases was determined by using the N = [(Zα+Zβ)/C]2 + 3formula.Considering the losses, the work will be carried out over 80 people. Results and Discussion: There’s significant difference between 25-hydroxyvitamin-D2 and 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 and the BMI levels of the subjects(p:0.028<0.05-p:0.000<0.05). The average 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin-D2 levels of overweight participants were significantly higher than the mean levels of underweight participants’. No significant relationship was found between 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin-D2 levels and the time spent outdoors during summer and winter. Conclusion: To prevent vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is to obtain some sensible sun exposure, ingest foods that contain vitamin D, and take supplement. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(2) 2020 p.229-236

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Social Skills Assessment: A Comparative Evaluation of Six Published Rating Scales

School Psychology Review ◽

10.1080/02796015.1995.12085793 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 648-671 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Michelle K. Demaray ◽

Stacey L. Ruffalo ◽

John Carlson ◽

R. T. Busse ◽

Amy E. Olson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Comparative Evaluation ◽

Rating Scales ◽

Skills Assessment ◽

Social Skills Assessment

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The Relationship between Foot Status and Motor Status in Preschool Children: A Simple, Comparative Observational Study

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9080936 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 936

Author(s):

Milan Kojić ◽

Branka Protić Gava ◽

Milan Bajin ◽

Marko Vasiljević ◽

Jasmina Bašić ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Preschool Children ◽

Observational Study ◽

Total Sample ◽

Nonparametric Tests ◽

Significance Level ◽

Flat Feet ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Left And Right ◽

The Relationship

Background: The research objective of the study is to determine the differences in the manifestation of the motor status of normally fed preschool test subjects, classified into groups according to foot status. Methods: This is a simple, comparative observational study. Preschool children included in this study have been subjected to anthropometric measurements in order to determine BMI, tests for motor skills assessment (running at 20 m from a high start, standing broad jump, backwards polygon, rectangular seated forward bend, plate tapping, sit-ups for 60 s, and bent arm hang), and a determination of foot status. The total sample was comprised of 202 test subjects who attended a regular sports program, aged 3.9 to 6.5 years of decimal age (M = 141; Age = 5.3 ± 0.74; Height = 117.3 ± 7.1; Weight = 22 ± 3.7; F = 61; Age = 5.1 ± 0.73; Height = 114.9 ± 7.4; Weight = 21.2 ± 3.8), of which 153 (75.7%) were normally fed, 6 (3%) were undernourished, 30 were overweight (14.9%), and 13 were obese (6.4%). Results: In the total sample, 30 (14.9%) subjects had normal arch feet, 90 (44.6%) high arched feet, and 41 (20.3%) flat feet. We found 41 (20.3%) subjects who had different left and right foot statuses within this sample. The data were processed by means of nonparametric tests (the Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests) at a significance level p ≤ 0.05. Conclusion: The results show that there is a statistically significant difference between groups of subjects with different foot statuses in the manifestation of motor status in most tests, with a significance level of p ≤ 0.01, and in tests of sit-ups for 60 s and the bent arm hang, there is a statistically significant difference, the level of which is p ≤ 0.05. It is only in the inclination test of rectangular seated forward bend that no statistically significant difference was displayed.

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