Competitive versus cooperative exergame play for African American adolescents' executive function skills: Short-term effects in a long-term training intervention.

Staiano, Amanda E.; Abraham, Ann; Calvert, Sandra L.

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“…29,30 However, in human and animal studies, adiposity has been found to be a source of inflammatory cytokines, which a recent study found mediated cognitive deficits in mice. 31 In addition, exercise and obesity intervention studies in overweight and obese older children have found improvements in motor skills and general cognitive functions with decreases in BMI percentile, 32,33 suggesting a directionality similar to our finding. Further, a nationally representative prospective study found that becoming overweight between kindergarten and third grade was a significant risk factor for adverse academic and behavioral school outcomes in girls.…”

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Body Mass Index Mediates the Effects of Low Income on Preschool Children's Executive Control, with Implications for Behavior and Academics

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Background: Children from low-income backgrounds are more likely to have cognitive impairments, academic problems, and obesity. Biological mechanisms for the relationship between adiposity and neurocognitive functioning have been suggested, but the direction of effects is unclear.Methods: The relations among income, BMI, and cognitive-behavioral functioning were modeled longitudinally. Children (n = 306) were assessed at 36-39 months (Time 1; T1) and 63-67 months (Time 4; T4) through anthropometry, measures of executive control (EC), delay ability (DA), and questionnaires on academic readiness, social competence, and behavioral adjustment.Results: Income was positively related to T1 EC and DA and negatively related to T1 BMI. T1 BMI was negatively related to T4 EC, after controlling for T1 EC, but was unrelated to changes in DA. Neither T1 EC nor DA was related to changes in BMI. T4 EC predicted greater academic readiness and social competence and lower adjustment problems at T4. T4 BMI was related to higher T4 adjustment problems. There was an indirect effect of income on T4 EC through T1 BMI. There were indirect effects of T1 BMI on academic readiness, social competence, and adjustment through T4 EC. Children who were obese at T1 had a 19% lower rate of growth of EC, compared to nonobese children.Conclusions: BMI mediates the effect of income on children's EC and has negative implications for academic readiness, social competence, and behavioral adjustment. The dual impact of obesity and cognitive-behavioral problems underscores the importance of early identification of and intervention for overweight children which could have neurocognitive and social-emotional benefits.

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“…2 estudios realizaron los grupos de manera aleatoria (Flynn et al, 2014;Staiano et al, 2012) y otros 2 no realizaron aleatorización de grupos (Best, 2011;Gao et al, 2016). Presentan un total de 252 sujetos.…”

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“…Todos ellos pertenecen al continente americano (USA). Las variables de AF que se controlaron fueron la frecuencia cardiaca (Best, 2011), resistencia y fuerza (Staiano et al, 2012), la puntuación dada por el juego tras la sesión de práctica y el tiempo en recorrer una milla antes y después de la intervención con la Nintendo Wii . Las medidas de rendimiento a nivel cognitivo se centraron en las funciones ejecutivas ¾esfuerzo académico, nivel de logro, frustración, aburrimiento, autoconcepto¾.…”

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Empleo De La Nintendo Wii Para La Mejora Del Rendimiento Académico

Serrano¹

2017

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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RESUMENActualmente nos encontramos ante una sociedad en constante evolución en busca de nuevas estrategias metodológicas que permitan un mejor desarrollo integral de la persona. Estas deben ser atractivas y motivadoras a la vez que permitan contribuir a mejorar las competencias sociales y cognitivas. Dentro del ámbito educativo, nos encontramos ante una situación compleja puesto que los últimos informes arrojados a nivel europeo ponen de relieve un bajo nivel en cuanto a rendimiento académico.La evidencia científica actual ha corroborado que una manera de estimular la función cognitiva es a través de la práctica habitual de Actividad Física (AF) (Ruiz-Ariza et al., 2017a). Se ha demostrado que con la inclusión de actividades lúdicas como los Video Juegos Activos durante la jornada académica ayuda a incrementar la cantidad de AF practicada, así como a mejorar la socialización y el rendimiento cognitivo ¾atención, concentración, memoria¾ (Joronen et al., 2016).Este trabajo pretende poner de manifiesto como la práctica de AF mediante el uso de la videoconsola Nintendo Wii influye de manera positiva en la cognición de niños y adolescentes. Para ello realizaremos una búsqueda bibliográfica en los últimos 7 años. Los resultados obtenidos muestran una asociación de la práctica de la Nintendo Wii con una mejora en la cognición e incremento del nivel de AF. Como conclusión, se sugiere el empleo de las nuevas tecnologías, sobre todo, usándo-las de forma integral mediante juegos educativos que conlleven movimiento de forma implícita, para continuar inculcando hábitos saludables de actividad física, aumentar la motivación del alumnado, reducir el tiempo sedentario diario que pasan en las aulas, favorecer a una mejor socialización, y consecuentemente, mejorar el rendimiento escolar.Palabras Clave Nintendo Wii, exergames, actividad física, cognición, rendimiento académico.

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“…Video game use may beneficially affect visuospatial attention and mental rotation capabilities [78][79][80]. Exergames [81,82] and brain training games may improve executive function [83]. The implications of "brain training" effects on the immature brain are not completely understood [84].…”

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mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

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Spruijt‐Metz

O’Reilly

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Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

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Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health issue. mHealth systems offer state-of-the-art approaches to intervention design, delivery, and diffusion of treatment and prevention efforts. Benefits include cost effectiveness, potential for real-time data collection, feedback capability, minimized participant burden, relevance to multiple types of populations, and increased dissemination capability. However, these advantages are coupled with unique challenges. This commentary discusses challenges with using mHealth strategies for child obesity prevention, such as lack of scientific evidence base describing effectiveness of commercially available applications; relatively slower speed of technology development in academic research settings as compared with industry; data security, and patient privacy; potentially adverse consequences of increased sedentary screen time, and decreased focused attention due to technology use. Implications for researchers include development of more nuanced measures of screen time and other technology-related activities, and partnering with industry for developing healthier technologies. Implications for health practitioners include monitoring, assessing, and providing feedback to child obesity program designers about users' data transfer issues, perceived security and privacy, sedentary behavior, focused attention, and maintenance of behavior change. Implications for policy makers include regulation of claims and quality of apps (especially those aimed at children), supporting standardized data encryption and secure open architecture, and resources for research-industry partnerships that improve the look and feel of technology. Partnerships between academia and industry may promote solutions, as discussed in this commentary. KEYWORDSChildhood, Obesity, Mobile technology, mHealth, Screen time, Focused attention, Sedentary behavior Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health issue, increasing children's risk for elevated blood pressure and lipid concentrations, musculoskeletal pain, depression, anxiety, bullying, and later heart disease, asthma, and diabetes in adulthood [1][2][3]. Poor diet, lack of exercise, food marketing, a built environment that promotes sedentary forms of transport and leisure, lack of sleep, and television sets in children's bedrooms are some of the multiple sources contributing to children's obesogenic environment [4,5]. Behavior-based interventions are essential for prevention and treatment [6]. Many forms of behavioral obesity interventions have been tested in the past such as school, community, family, and physician based, which have shown moderate success [7][8][9]. Electronic media offers opportunities to extend current approaches and to develop new ones [8,10]. POTENTAIL SUCCESS OF MHEALTH APPROACHESElectronic mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones, iPod touch, tablets, wireless sensors, etc.) that can be employed in mobile health (mHealth) surveil-

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Competitive versus cooperative exergame play for African American adolescents' executive function skills: Short-term effects in a long-term training intervention.

Cited by 133 publications

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Body Mass Index Mediates the Effects of Low Income on Preschool Children's Executive Control, with Implications for Behavior and Academics

Body Mass Index Mediates the Effects of Low Income on Preschool Children's Executive Control, with Implications for Behavior and Academics

Empleo De La Nintendo Wii Para La Mejora Del Rendimiento Académico

mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

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