School and weekend physical activity of 15-16 year-old Czech, Slovak and Polish adolescents

Lokvencová, Petra Nováková; Frömel, Karel; Chmelík, František; Groffik, Dorota; Bebčáková, Viera

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“…Mean daily step count on school days and weekends in less active girls equals 7717 steps/day (6040 steps/day at weekends), and in boys, 7707 steps/day (5821 steps/ day at weekends); these low counts are alarming. Our study confirmed again that girls respond better to wearables than boys [20,43] (e.g. less missing data, interest in use of pedometers after the end of study period) and that the gender-differences in PA volume (as expressed by step counts) have been diminishing.…”

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“…The lowest difference in daily step count between boys and girls with higher and lower PA was found on Mondays; efforts to decrease this difference even further might be especially important as a way to compensate for Sundays, as the most critical day with the lowest level of PA. The low level of PA on Sundays has been previously reported by numerous studies [20,[38][39][40][41]. The unfavourable PA on Sundays in the least physically active adolescents has not been getting any better thus far.…”

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“…Boys have been shown to be more physically active than girls during both school and weekend days [14][15][16], while adolescents of both genders are less physically active on weekends than on school days [17][18][19]. This is confirmed by results from Central Europe, with the most critical day for PA being Sunday, as shown in adolescents from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia [20].…”

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Background: Physical activity (PA) in adolescence is crucial for lifelong healthy lifestyle, and attention is needed to adolescents at health risk due to insufficient PA. This study investigates the composition of weekly PA in adolescents by PA level and provides a rationale for change in their lifestyles. Methods: The research was conducted at 66 schools in Poland between 2009 and 2016, among 949 girls and 650 boys aged 15-18 years. We used pedometers to monitor weekly PA with data assessed using the Indares web app. The participants were split into three groups by mean daily step count (lower, < 9000; middle, 9000-12,999; and higher, ≥ 13,000 steps/day), as a reliable and non-expensive indicator of PA. Results: We did not observe statistically significant differences in composition of 7-day PA between participants with varying levels of PA, regardless of their gender (F (12,9558) = 0.60; p = 0.841; η p 2 > 0.000). The smallest differences in daily step counts by PA level were found on Mondays and the biggest on Fridays and Saturdays, in boys and girls; the differences between average school and average weekend days were most pronounced in less active girls (1677 steps/day) and boys (1886 steps/day). During the school week, the highest proportion of less active girls met the 11,000 steps/day recommendation on Fridays (21.9%), statistically significantly less than on other school days (p < 0.001). Similarly, less active boys (22.2%) had significantly less activity on Fridays than on other school days, except for Mondays (p = 0.143) Analogous pattern was apparent also in more active adolescents. Conclusions: Less active adolescents have comparable composition of weekly PA to the more active ones but they can hardly meet the generally accepted PA recommendations. Better understanding of weekly PA composition and rates of meeting PA recommendations by day of the week can lead to more efficient interventions improving lifestyles. The recommendation of 9000 steps/day most days of the week, thus, appears appropriate for less active adolescents, as a motivating achievable goal.

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“…Dílčí výzkumy realizovalo CKV i v Polsku (Frömel, Stelzer, & Groffi k, 2008;Nováková Lokvencová, Frömel, Chmelík, Groffi k, & Bebčáková, 2011). Zvolenou problematiku výzkumu podporují již dříve zjištěná fakta o významu aktivního transportu pro celkovou PA dětí a adolescentů (Cooperet et al, 2003).…”

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Předloženo v březnu 2013VÝCHODISKA: Škola a s ní spojená pohybová aktivita (PA) je rozhodující pro utváření celkové PA dětí a mládeže. Ve prospěch školy hovoří například i zjištění, že PA adolescentů je ve školních dnech vyšší než o víkendu. Děti a mladiství, kteří aktivně docházejí nebo dojíždějí každý den do školy, vykazují celkově vyšší týdenní PA v porovnání se stejně starými jedinci, kteří využívají pasivní formy transportu (jízda autem, vlakem, MHD apod.). Data z výzkumů zaměřených na podíl aktivního transportu (AT) na celkovou úroveň PA u populace adolescentních jedinců v České republice nejsou v současné době dostupná.CÍLE: Hlavním cílem výzkumu je objektivizace monitoringu aktivního transportu adolescentů na základě triangulačního přístupu (objektivní měření přístroji Actigraph GT1M, resp. krokoměr YAMAX 700-M -subjektivní metody [dotazník Neighborhood Quality of Life Study (NQLS)] -systém INDARES). Výzkum si dále klade za cíl přispět ke komplexnějšímu uchopení zkoumané problematiky.METODIKA: Projekt byl realizován na záměrně vybrané škole -Gymnázium Nový Jičín. Celková velikost výzkumného souboru byla 27 respondentů. Hlavním výzkumným nástrojem byl systém INDARES, na jehož podkladu respondenti zaznamenávali trasy AT. Data získaná z přístoje ActiGraph GT1M byla zpracována pomocí softwaru "ActiPa2006".VÝSLEDKY: Při využití kombinace nově vytvořeného mapového modulu "trasovače" v systému INDARES a dat získaných z přístroje Actigraph GT1M jsme mohli komparovat probandy, jejichž aktivní transport (AT) nepřesáhl hodnotu 1000 m s těmi, jejichž hodnoty AT přesáhly hranici 1000 m. Při této komparaci byly zjištěny signifi kantní rozdíly u PA v školních/pracovních dnech, jejíž průměrná intenzita byla v rozmezí 1 až 3 MET. Statistická významnost

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“…Bunc postulates that the decrease has been approximately by 30 % in the past two decades [4]. When comparing working and weekend days, young people do more physical activities during the week, which is probably because of the school physical activities they engage in [5,6,7]. The same conclusion applies also to engaging obese children's involvement in PA [8].…”

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Background: One of the greatest problems of the contemporary society is obesity that manifests itself across all age categories. It is, however, in a direct contradiction to the increase of scientifically proven effects of physical activity (hereinafter referred to as 'PA') on the reduction and elimination of obesity. The question to be asked is: What is the impact of PA on BMI of the monitored study participants? Objective: The objective of our research was to analyse the relationship between physical activity (PA) and the body mass index (BMI) of 15-17-yearsold secondary-school students in four countries of the Visegrad group (V4). Material and method: The research was conducted in 2015 and the research sample concerned 2,499 students. Due to incomplete data, or, errors in answers, the statistic processing of the data included only 2,140 students, out of which 880 boys (41 %) and 1,260 girls (58.9 %). The information was gathered by means of an extended version of standardised International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The questionnaires were filled online while at school using the INDARES internet-based system. For the statistical processing of data, we used the methods of ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Kruskal-Wallis Test, and Mann Whitney U Test. Results: The achieved results confirmed significant differences in engaging in PA on the part of boys (p=0.01). There are also differences between grades, and in boys also in different forms of strain; in girls only in the overall volume of PA (0.01). In the context of individual countries, significant differences exist in both boys and girls equally. Pupils from the Slovak Republic report the highest levels of PA, while those form Hungary report the lowest PA (p=0.01). When evaluating overall BMI as well as BMI in individual countries, the difference between genders has been confirmed to the boys' disadvantage (p=0.01). This statement also applies to comparison of individual countries, where the Czech students have the highest BMI and the Slovak students the lowest. Conclusion: Overall, as well as in terms of specific grades, boys are more physically active than girls. In all cases, they also have higher BMI. No significant relation has been proven between the volume and intensity of PA and BMI in both genders.

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School and weekend physical activity of 15-16 year-old Czech, Slovak and Polish adolescents

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Composition of weekly physical activity in adolescents by level of physical activity

Composition of weekly physical activity in adolescents by level of physical activity

Objectification of the school-related transport monitoring of the adolescents

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