Cohort Profile Update: The Motorik-Modul (MoMo) Longitudinal Study—physical fitness and physical activity as determinants of health development in German children and adolescents

Wöll, Alexander; Klos, Leon; Burchartz, Alexander; Hanssen-Doose, Anke; Niessner, Claudia; Oriwol, Doris; Schmidt, Steffen; Bös, Klaus; Worth, Annette

doi:10.1093/ije/dyaa281

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“…Healthier PA and SB were significantly related to lower BMI. PA behavior was better than what had been assumed based on previous studies in Germany [15][16][17]. MVPA values of the present study were also higher compared to the international HELENA study, which reported a daily average of around 50 min of MVPA for adolescent girls from nine European countries including Germany [42].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…In contrast, the German GINIplus and IDEFICS studies used 60-s epochs and vertical axis cut points [15,16]. The German KiGGS study applied VM cut points but only a 15-s epoch length [17,69]. Both the European HELENA study (including data from adolescents of one German city) and the ENERGY project only measured vertical movements and analyzed accelerometer data with an epoch length of 15 s [42,43].…”

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Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Levels and Patterns in Female Sixth Graders: The CReActivity Project

Bachner

Sturm

Demetriou

2020

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Regular physical activity (PA) and low levels of sedentary behavior (SB) have positive health effects on young people. Adolescent girls of low socioeconomic background represent a high-risk group with regard to physical inactivity and SB. In this study, accelerometer-measured levels of PA and SB of female sixth graders attending lower secondary schools in Germany are presented, patterns of PA and SB throughout the day are described and differences between weekdays and weekend days are analyzed. Data of 425 students of the CReActivity project were analyzed. Sampling and processing of accelerometer data followed recent recommendations, which had not been applied to data of a German-speaking sample before. The WHO recommendation of daily 60 min moderate-to-vigorous PA was fulfilled by 90.4% of the girls on weekdays and by 57.4% on weekend days. The significant weekday–weekend differences were mainly associated with active commuting to and from school. Students engaged in SB for more than 8 h on weekdays and for over 7 h on weekend days. The results suggest a strong need for interventions increasing PA and reducing SB, especially during school hours and on weekends. Furthermore, a comparison with methods and results of previous studies highlights the need to follow recent criteria in accelerometer data sampling and processing to ensure an accurate and valid differentiation between PA-related risk groups and non-risk groups.

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Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Levels and Patterns in Female Sixth Graders: The CReActivity Project

Bachner

Sturm

Demetriou

2020

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“…All data were obtained within the framework of the MoMo study (Woll et al, 2021). The study follows a cohort sequence design to analyze and track the physical activity, fitness, and health of children and adolescents living in Germany.…”

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Influence of socioeconomic variables on physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents during the COVID‑19 lockdown in Germany: the MoMo study

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Burchartz

Kolb

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Ger J Exerc Sport Res

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The COVID‑19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic created a multitude of natural experiments about the change of human behavior in a widely unfamiliar situation. Besides physical and mental health, physical activity (PA) and people’s movement behaviors were of particular interest to researchers all over the world. In a recent study, we found that among youth in Germany, sports activity declined, whereas recreational screen time and habitual activity increased during the first COVID‑19 lockdown. In the present study, we analyze the influence of the socioeconomic status and the housing situation on the changes in PA behavior and recreational screen-time before and during the first COVID‑19 lockdown among children and adolescents living in Germany. We found an alignment of PA behavior among youth from families with different socioeconomic backgrounds during the first lockdown and identified the housing situation to be a meaningful predictor of the increase in habitual activity. We conclude that restriction policies, communities, and in the last instance parents need to enable access to nonorganized PA to all children and adolescents every day and especially during potential future lockdowns.

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“…KiGGS Wave 2 was conducted between 2014 and 2017. The Motorik-Modul Study (MoMo) is a submodule of the KiGGS study and aims to assess physical fitness, PA, as well as determinants of PA in children and adolescents [51]. The whole study sample was drawn from the German resident population aged 4 to 17 years (only subjects aged between 11 and 17 years were selected for this study) using a two-stage cluster sampling approach.…”

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A Short Version of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties

Chen

Weyland

Fritsch

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Objective: The purposes of this paper were to (a) develop a new short, theory-driven, version of the physical activity enjoyment scale (PACES-S) using content analysis; and (b) subsequently to measure the psychometric properties (construct validity, internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and concurrent validity) of the PACES-S for adolescents. Methods: Six experts used a four-point Likert scale to assess the content validity of each of the 16 items of the physical activity enjoyment scale according to a provided definition of physical activity enjoyment. Based on the results, exploratory factor analysis was used to analyze survey data from a longitudinal study of 182 individuals (Measure 1 of Study 1: 15.75 ± 3.39 yrs; 56.6% boys, 43.4% girls), and confirmatory factor analysis (Measure 2 of Study 1: 15.69 ± 3.44 yrs; 56.3% boys, 43.7% girls) was used to analyze the survey data from a cross-sectional study of 3219 individuals (Study 2; 15.99 ± 3.10 yrs; 47.8% boys, 52.2% girls) to assess the construct validity of the new measure. To assess the reliability, test–retest reliability was assessed in Study 1 and internal consistency in Study 1 and 2. For the concurrent validity, correlations with self-reported and device-based physical activity behavior were assessed in both studies. Results: Four out of sixteen items were selected for PACES-S. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analyses identified and supported its factorial validity (χ2 = 53.62, df = 2, p < 0.001; RMSEA = 0.073; CFI = 0.99; RFI = 0.96; NFI = 0.99; TLI = 0.96; IFI = 0.99). Results showed good test–retest reliability (r = 0.76) and internal consistency (a = 0.82 to 0.88). Regarding concurrent validity, the results showed positive correlations with a physical activity questionnaire (Study 1: r = 0.36), with a physical activity diary (Study 1: r = 0.44), and with accelerometer-recorded data (Study 1: r = 0.32; Study 2: r = 0.21). Conclusions: The results indicate that PACES-S is a reliable and valid instrument that may be particularly useful to measure physical activity enjoyment in large-scale studies. It shows comparable measurement properties as the long version of PACES.

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Cohort Profile Update: The Motorik-Modul (MoMo) Longitudinal Study—physical fitness and physical activity as determinants of health development in German children and adolescents

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Levels and Patterns in Female Sixth Graders: The CReActivity Project

Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Levels and Patterns in Female Sixth Graders: The CReActivity Project

Influence of socioeconomic variables on physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents during the COVID‑19 lockdown in Germany: the MoMo study

A Short Version of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties

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