Investigating Motor Competence in Association with Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity in 7- to 11-Year-Old Children

Adank, Anoek; Kann, Dave H. H. Van; Hoeboer, Joris; Vries, S.I. de; Kremers, Stef; Vos, Steven

doi:10.3390/ijerph15112470

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“…More recently, a reduction of physical activity (i.e., 2.30 h/week) has been found in prior research regarding confined children and adolescents due to Covid-19 (30); such values were higher than those found in the present study, which observed a difference of 1.40 h/week in respect to previous confinement levels. Differences between the two studies concerning physical activity could be attributed to different sample characteristics; for instance, children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds have shown higher levels of physical activity, whereas the context of confinement might influence physical activity levels (e.g., more time confined or experiencing stricter confinement can modify ordinary levels of physical activity) (28)(29)(30)(31)(32). Closure of schools during both strict and relaxed confinement might play a key role in this found reduction since schools, and, particularly physical education classes provide an adequate environment to promote active behaviors among children and adolescents (33)(34)(35).…”

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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) world pandemic, affected countries such as Spain enacted measures comprising compulsory confinement as well as restrictions regarding free movement. Such measures likely influence children's and adolescents' lifestyles. Our study aimed to investigate the impact that the Covid-19 confinement has on health-related behaviors (HRBs) among Spanish children and adolescents. An online survey was administered to 516 parents to collect data about 860 children and adolescents (49.2% girls) aged between 3 and 16 years in relation to physical activity, screen exposure, sleep time, and fruit and vegetable consumption during the Covid-19 confinement. Respectively, t-paired test and t-test between groups served to check differences between HRBs levels before and during the confinement as well as between strict and relaxed confinement. Significant differences were found for a reduction of weekly minutes of physical activity during the confinement (−102.5, SD 159.6) (p < 0.001), an increase of daily hours of screen exposure (2.9, SD 2.1) (p < 0.001), and a reduction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption (−0.2, SD 1.6) (p < 0.001). Sleep time showed a significant difference between strict and relaxed confinement (−0.3, SD 0.1) (p < 0.05), whereas binomial logistic regression adjusted for covariates (age, sex, education of the parents, siblings, current condition, exposure to Covid-19, and previous health risk behavior) showed significantly lower odds for screen exposure risk behavior with relaxed confinement (OR 0.60, 95%CI 0.40-0.91). The present study suggests that Covid-19 confinement reduced physical activity levels, increased both screen exposure and sleep time, and reduced fruit and vegetable consumption. Therefore, most HRBs worsened among this sample of Spanish children and adolescents. Closure of schools, online education, and the lack of López-Bueno et al. Health-Related Behaviors Among Young policies addressing the conciliation between labor and family life could have played an important role in HRBs worsening among pupils, which might be mitigated with adequate conciliation policies, parental guidance, and community support.

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Section: Physical Activitymentioning

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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

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“…Another strength of this study is that PA was objectively measured and that the compliance of the participants was high, i.e., the average mean accelerometer wear time was over 13 h per day during waking hours for four school days. A limitation of this study was the overrepresentation of grade-6 children with low MC compared to grade-4 children, while in the whole research population, the number of children in both groups was equally distributed [12]. Also, the study only focused on weekday patterns.…”

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“…Data used in the current study derived from the SALTO (Dutch acronym for Stimulating an Active Lifestyle Through Physical Education) study [12]. This study was conducted on ten primary schools in the south of the Netherlands.…”

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“…Children with poor MC spend less time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) compared to other children with normal MC [11]. In addition, Adank et al [12] and Lopes et al [9] found that children with low MC spend more time sedentary compared to their counterparts. Moreover, a reciprocal relationship is assumed between MC and PA levels [3,13,14,15], indicating that motor skills development might be stimulated by increasing PA levels or decreasing SB.…”

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Disentangling Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Patterns in Children with Low Motor Competence

Kann

Adank

Dijk

et al. 2019

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Children with low motor competence (MC) are at high-risk for physical inactivity, yet little is known about their physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) patterns throughout the day. The purpose of this study is to disentangle PA and SB patterns among children with low MC across segmented day periods taking into account differences in gender and age. Data collection took place between May and July 2017. The Athletic Skills Track was used to measure MC. PA levels were objectively measured using accelerometers (ActiGraph, GT3X+) on school days. Data were segmented for (1) time before school, (2) time during school (based on school schedules), and (3) time after school. In total, data from 117 7-to-11 years-old children with low MC were eligible for analyses (N = 58 girls; N = 59 boys). Differences in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and SB between segmented periods, gender, and grade were analyzed by ANOVAs with post hoc tests (Tukey) and Independent Sample T-tests respectively. Time spent at school is the major contributor of time spent in SB in children with low MC. Low MC is equally distributed among gender, but large differences exist among boys and girls in both MVPA and SB, indicating low-MC girls as most inactive group. This pattern is found in all segmented periods of the school day, i.e., before, during, and after school. This study stresses the negative contribution of current school curricula on PA and SB in children with low MC, indicating the most efficient period of the day to intervene. Future school-based PA and SB interventions should particularly focus on specific high-risk populations, i.e., children with low MC, and girls in particular.

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“…Recent research projects indicate that excessive time without PA might play a negative role in children’s lives, especially in combination with screen activities [ 24 , 25 , 26 ]. According to terminology consensus, such behavior can be called “sedentary behavior” or “stationary behavior” [ 10 ].…”

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First Graders’ Stationary Behavior in Norwegian After-School Programs: A Mixed Methods Investigation

Løndal

Lund

Haugen

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After-school programs (ASPs) might influence the activities and behaviors of children. The aim of the reported study was to investigate how stationary behavior unfolds during ASP time in a sample of Norwegian first graders. A total of 42 first graders from 14 ASPs were observed during one entire ASP day. ActiGraph accelerometers were used to measure the intensity of their physical activity (PA). Children were found to be involved in stationary behavior for 54.9% of the studied ASP time—a median of 79.5 min (IQR = 62.0). However, there was considerable variation among the children in the sample. Most stationary behavior—63.5% of all stationary behavior during ASP time—was accumulated when the children were sitting indoors. The proportion of stationary behavior was significantly higher indoors than outdoors, during adult-managed time than child-managed time, and during time spent together with other children than time spent alone (p < 0.05). In child-managed physical activity play outdoors, stationary behavior commonly occurred during short periods of standing still. Stationary behavior was usually rapidly broken up by longer periods of PA. Stationary periods involved activities in close relationship with other children and appeared to be important for social interaction and friendship building. The researchers suggest that ASP staff members should actively promote physical activity play that breaks up sedentary time and replaces some stationary behaviors with PA, especially among the least active children.

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Investigating Motor Competence in Association with Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity in 7- to 11-Year-Old Children

Cited by 24 publications

References 56 publications

Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

Disentangling Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Patterns in Children with Low Motor Competence

First Graders’ Stationary Behavior in Norwegian After-School Programs: A Mixed Methods Investigation

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