Association of sedentary behaviour on internalizing problems in children with and without motor coordination problems

Bulten, Rheanna; Brown, D. H.; Rodriguez, Christine; Cairney, John

doi:10.1016/j.mhpa.2020.100325

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“…Combined with the fact that children at risk for DCD experience higher rates of mental health problems beginning as early as the preschool years ( 23 ), this dearth of research highlights the need for additional work—particularly among larger and more diverse samples—to better understand whether movement behaviors influence mental health in the early years. Although existing literature has examined different pathways by which physical activity and sedentary time influence indicators of mental health among children classified as rDCD ( 24 , 25 ), studies adopting novel techniques to investigate how the interplay between these movement behaviors affects their mental health have yet to be conducted.…”

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Cross-Sectional Associations Between Wake-Time Movement Compositions and Mental Health in Preschool Children With and Without Motor Coordination Problems

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Movement behaviors have been found to be important correlates of health for children and may be particularly important for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) who often experience greater mental health problems. To date, however, little research has investigated the daily movement composition of preschool children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and/or its association with mental health. The purpose of the current study was to: (1) examine whether differences in movement compositions (i.e., sedentary time, light physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity) exist between typically developing (TD) preschool-age children and those at risk for DCD (rDCD); and (2) investigate associations between movement compositions and mental health indicators. This cross-sectional study used the baseline cohort data from the Coordination and Activity Tracking in CHildren (CATCH) study. A total of 589 preschool-age children (Mage = 4.94 ± 0.59 years; 57.4% boys) were included in this analysis, of which 288 scored at or below the 16th percentile on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 and were thus classified as rDCD. Wake time movement behaviors were measured using accelerometers and parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist to assess their child's mental health (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems). Compositional data analysis techniques were used. After adjusting for potential confounders, the results demonstrated similar movement compositions between TD and rDCD children. Among the full sample, findings revealed a significant association between sedentary time and externalizing problems, however, each of the other associations did not reach statistical significance. These results are consistent with emerging evidence demonstrating similar patterns of physical activity and sedentary time among TD children and those classified as rDCD during the preschool years. Although movement behaviors explained little variance in mental health during this period, future research should investigate when movement compositions diverge, and how these changes may impact the mental health of TD children and those classified as rDCD later in childhood.

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Cross-Sectional Associations Between Wake-Time Movement Compositions and Mental Health in Preschool Children With and Without Motor Coordination Problems

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“…Children with DCD are often described as “clumsy”, as they struggle with tasks such as handwriting, tying their shoes, using scissors, and riding a bike. These deficits are later associated with decreased academic achievement, lower self-esteem, anxiety, depression, childhood obesity, and a higher reluctance to partake in leisure activities 3 – 7 . DCD is viewed as chronic, and an estimated 75% of cases will continue into adulthood if there is no intervention 8 .…”

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Auditory rhythm facilitates perception and action in children at risk for developmental coordination disorder

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Armstrong

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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder featuring deficits in motor coordination and motor timing among children. Deficits in rhythmic tracking, including perceptually tracking and synchronizing action with auditory rhythms, have been studied in a wide range of motor disorders, providing a foundation for developing rehabilitation programs incorporating auditory rhythms. We tested whether DCD also features these auditory-motor deficits among 7–10 year-old children. In a speech recognition task with no overt motor component, modulating the speech rhythm interfered more with the performance of children at risk for DCD than typically developing (TD) children. A set of auditory-motor tapping tasks further showed that, although children at risk for DCD performed worse than TD children in general, the presence of an auditory rhythmic cue (isochronous metronome or music) facilitated the temporal consistency of tapping. Finally, accuracy in the recognition of rhythmically modulated speech and tapping consistency correlated with performance on the standardized motor assessment. Together, the results show auditory rhythmic regularity benefits auditory perception and auditory-motor coordination in children at risk for DCD. This provides a foundation for future clinical studies to develop evidence-based interventions involving auditory-motor rhythmic coordination for children with DCD.

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“…Combined with the fact that children at risk for DCD experience higher rates of mental health problems beginning as early as the preschool years (Rodriguez et al, 2019), this dearth of research highlights the need for additional workparticularly among larger and more diverse samplesto better understand whether movement behaviours influence mental health in the early years. Although existing literature has examined different pathways by which physical activity and sedentary time influence indicators of mental health among children classified as rDCD (Bulten et al, 2020;Li et al, 2021), studies adopting novel techniques to investigate how the interplay between these movement behaviours affects their mental health have yet to be conducted.…”

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Cross-sectional associations between wake-time movement behaviour compositions and indicators of mental health among preschool children

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King‐Dowling³

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Movement behaviours have been found to be important correlates of health for children and may be particularly important for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) who often experience greater mental health problems. To date, however, little research has investigated the daily movement composition of preschool children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and/or its association with mental health. The purpose of the current study was to: 1) examine whether differences in movement compositions (i.e., sedentary time, light physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous activity) exist between typically developing (TD) preschool-age children and those at risk for DCD (rDCD); and 2) investigate associations between movement compositions and mental health indicators. This cross-sectional study used the baseline cohort data from the Coordination and Activity Tracking in CHildren (CATCH) study. A total of 589 preschool-age children (Mage = 4.94 ± 0.59 years; 57.4% boys) were included in this analysis, of which 288 were classified as rDCD. Wake time movement behaviours were measured using accelerometers and parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist to assess their child’s mental health (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems). Compositional data analysis techniques were used. After adjusting for potential confounders, the results demonstrated similar movement compositions between TD and rDCD children. Among the full sample, findings revealed a significant association between sedentary time and externalizing problems, however, each of the other associations did not reach statistical significance. These results are consistent with emerging evidence demonstrating similar patterns of physical activity and sedentary time among TD children and those classified as rDCD during the preschool years. Although movement behaviours explained little variance in mental health during this period, future research should investigate when movement compositions diverge, and how these changes may impact the mental health of TD children and those classified as rDCD later in childhood.

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Association of sedentary behaviour on internalizing problems in children with and without motor coordination problems

Cited by 8 publications

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Cross-Sectional Associations Between Wake-Time Movement Compositions and Mental Health in Preschool Children With and Without Motor Coordination Problems

Cross-Sectional Associations Between Wake-Time Movement Compositions and Mental Health in Preschool Children With and Without Motor Coordination Problems

Auditory rhythm facilitates perception and action in children at risk for developmental coordination disorder

Cross-sectional associations between wake-time movement behaviour compositions and indicators of mental health among preschool children

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