Why are children different in their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels? A multilevel analysis

Pereira, Sara; Reyes, Ana Carolina Rodriguez; Santos, Marcos André Moura dos; Santos, Carla; Gomes, Thayse Natacha; Tani, Go; Vasconcelos, Olga; Barreira, Tiago V.; Katzmarzyk, Peter T.; Maia, José

doi:10.1016/j.jped.2018.10.013

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“…Recent studies have shown that quantifying children's developmental levels and motor coordination is an important focus of school physical education (PE) classes, sport teaching, and understanding the factors that influence childrens' maturation (Caçola et al, 2016;D'Hondt et al, 2014;Luz et al, 2015;Pereira et al, 2020;Santos & Ferracioli, 2020). Worldwide, poor motor coordination affects approximately 5-6% of primary school students between 5-11 years of age (Blank, 2012).…”

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Construct Validity Evidence in the Motor Coordination Test with Ball - MCTB

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Our purpose with this study was to analyze construct validity evidence for the Motor Coordination Test with Ball (MCTB). Our participant sample included 1620 students (741 girls; 879 boys) aged between 10-12 years. Evidence for construct-validity of the four tasks using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and adequacy indices confirmed a good fit of a final two-dimensional model (BTS = .000; KMO = .83; loading .53 to .91; communalities ranging from .31 to .86; explained variance of 63.5%; goodness-of-fit index (GFI) = .99; adjusted GFI (AGFI) = .97; RMSR = .03), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (X2/df = 4.9; GFI = .97; comparative fit index (CFI) = .92; TLI = .90; Root-Mean-Square Error of Aproximation (RMSEA) = .03). We concluded that, in a Brazilian sample, the MCTB has good construct validity for motor coordination tests with balls; this helps qualify this test for use in schools and in the sports context.

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“…PA participation is a complex and multidimensional behavior that is determined by sociocultural, economic, and policy-related factors that operate across intra-/inter-personal, organizational, and environmental dimensions [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Although there is a great diversity of its influence on PA, generally, children from lower socioeconomic status (SES) households [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ], girls [ 18 , 22 ], those with low parental/peer support [ 15 , 23 , 24 , 25 ], and those residing in an unsupportive/unsafe neighborhood [ 19 , 26 ] are less likely to obtain sufficient MVPA. Similarly, in the Thai context, the factors of age, sex, geographical location of residence/school, and parental/peer support also determined the PA level of Thai children and young people [ 27 , 28 , 29 ].…”

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Prevalence and Trends of Physical Activity in Thai Children and Young People: Pooled Panel Data Analysis from Thailand’s Surveillance on Physical Activity 2012–2020

Widyastari

Saonuam

Rasri

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This study aims to describe the level and trends of physical activity (PA) in Thai children and young people and examine PA changes during transitional periods. Employing nine rounds of Thailand’s Surveillance on Physical Activity (SPA) 2012–2020, this study pooled three sets of data and included children and young people aged 6–17 years in the analysis: 1595 in SPA2012–2016, 1287 in SPA2017–2019, and 853 persons in SPA2020. Face-to-face interviews were conducted in five regions, 13 provinces, and 36 villages in SPA2012–2019, whereas an online survey was administered in all provinces in SPA2020. The prevalence of sufficient moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) among Thais aged 6–17 years ranged from 19.0 percent to 27.6 percent, with a significant drop during the period of COVID-19 spread in 2020. The average daily MVPA ranged from 46 to 57 min and dropped to 36 min during the pandemic. Boys were consistently more active than girls in all nine rounds of the SPA, and girls had more difficulty in maintaining or improving their PA level. A significant increase in the proportion of Thai children and young people with sufficient MVPA was observed during their transition from late primary to early secondary school grades.

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“…Local context associated with individual health and well-being has become an important research topic [1]. The contextual environment, such as the school [2][3][4], community [5,6], county, and state levels [7], has a considerable effect on people's health. In general, family context is directly related to the formation of its members' values, consumption habits and daily routines.…”

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Health Service Needs From a Household Perspective: an Empirical Study in Rural Empty Nest Households in China

Cheng

Zhang

2021

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Objective: Household is a fundamental unit in many fields. This study was to analyse consistency degree and people’s health service needs from the perspective of household.Methods: A multi-stage random sampling was conducted. A total of 7293 individuals in 2715 households were interviewed, and 1606 individuals in 803 empty-nest households were enrolled in this study. A questionnaire was used to ask each individual about their health service needs in empty nest households. The consistency degree was calculated based on their consistent answers to the questionnaire, and a correlation analyse was used to study the relationship of individuals’ health service needs in the same empty nest households. A family collective model was used to analyse household-based health service needs.Results: Individual’s needs consistency rates in empty nest households, such as diagnosis and treatment service(H1), follow-up service for chronic disease(H2), telemedicine care(H3), physical examination service(H4), health education service(H5), mental healthcare(H6), and Chinese traditional medicine service(H7) were 40.30%, 89.13%, 98.85%, 58.93%, 57.95%, 72.84%, and 63.40%, respectively. Service needs of H1, H3, H4, H5, H7 for individuals in the same empty nest households had significant correlations with each other (r=0.404, 0.177, 0.286, 0.265, 0.220, P<0.001). Health service needs from a perspective of household in rural China mainly included H1 (12.4%), H4 (44.2%), H5 (26.9%) and H7(18.9%). Conclusions: Individuals in the same household are highly consistent with each other in health service needs. Individuals could affect other members’ health service needs in their households, when one of them get illness, their spouse would likely to have same health service needs to avoid getting disease or to keep health. In this study, health service needs in empty nest households are mainly concerned with health promotion and maintenance services, which could be an indicator for primary care to improve the effectiveness of service delivery, such as family doctor and family-based health insurance system. Also, more focus should be paid on households that need great help on different health services.

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Why are children different in their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels? A multilevel analysis

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Construct Validity Evidence in the Motor Coordination Test with Ball - MCTB

Construct Validity Evidence in the Motor Coordination Test with Ball - MCTB

Prevalence and Trends of Physical Activity in Thai Children and Young People: Pooled Panel Data Analysis from Thailand’s Surveillance on Physical Activity 2012–2020

Health Service Needs From a Household Perspective: an Empirical Study in Rural Empty Nest Households in China

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