Directly Observed Physical Activity Levels in Preschool Children

Pate, Russell R.; McIver, Kerry L.; Dowda, Marsha; Brown, William H.; Addy, Cheryl L.

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00327.x

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“…: not sedentary activity) was 50 (± 17) minutes during the period of preschool [10]. Boys had a higher percentage of MVPA, and 3.2% against 2.5% in girls, p=0.01 [5].…”

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“…Children spend an average of 22.5 to 30 hours per week in preschools [9,5], between 7.22 and 7.51 ± 1.14 horas hours [3,10,11] a day on average. Most of the time the children are inactive, predominantly SB, in all studies, with an MVPA around Week for 1 hour [12].…”

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“…Thus, the chances of these recommendations for preschool children would be rare, even extrapolating for an all-day [3]. An aggravating factor is that parents think that children are highly active in preschool, and so offer fewer opportunities for active behavior in other environments, reducing the level of physical activity of children over day [5].…”

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Physical Activity of Preschool Children: A Review

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Oliveira²

2016

Physiother Rehabil

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“…: not sedentary activity) was 50 (± 17) minutes during the period of preschool [10]. Boys had a higher percentage of MVPA, and 3.2% against 2.5% in girls, p=0.01 [5].…”

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confidence: 85%

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confidence: 99%

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Physical Activity of Preschool Children: A Review

Barbosa¹,

Oliveira²

2016

Physiother Rehabil

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“…Lifestyle behaviours such as physical and sedentary behaviour may well account for gender differences in elevated BP among children, researchers concluded that preschool-aged children (ECD) boys were more likely to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity than girls, therefore we anticipate that boys should be more physically active compared to their counterparts girls [16], [33], [39], [44]. Gender differences in the elevated BP among children were influenced by several factors associated with age, weight, height and BMI in the children.…”

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Elevated Blood Pressure Among Zimbabwean Urban Primary School Children Aged 5–11 Years

Dube¹

2017

AJP

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Abstract:Following few publications available with data on blood pressure profiles of Zimbabwean population, especially children and adolescents, few data exist on urban and rural school going children. The aims of this study were to examine the incidence of hypertension (HT) among Zimbabwean urban children residing in Kwekwe; and to determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) among them. The study involved 480 primary school children (230 boys and 250 girls) aged 5-11 years. Stature and body weight were measured using standard procedures. BMI for gender and age defined overweight. BP was monitored for thrice consecutively using validated electronic devices (Omron 7051T). HT was determined as the average of three separate BP readings where the systolic or diastolic blood pressure was ≥ 95th percentile for age and sex. The incidence of overweight among the girls (3.6%) was higher compared with the boys (2.7%). Both systolic and diastolic pressures (SBP and DBP) increase with age in both sexes. Potential development of hypertension among the children is noticeable at Early Childhood Development (ECD) level for both boys and girls; 1.8% and 1.5% respectively and ranged from 0.8% to 1.8% for boys and 2.0% to 5.3% for girls. The overall incidence of hypertension was 1.5% and 2.6% in boys and girls, respectively. The highest noticeable value for boys was at ECD and decreased with increase in grade level. The incidence of hypertension (SBP > 95th percentile) was 0.4% and 0.2% in boys and girls, respectively. For the girls there was a progressive increase in the tendency towards development of hypertension from ECD to 6 th grade except a small decrease in 3 rd and 4 th grade levels. Girls in the 6 th grade level showed the highest value of incidence of hypertension (5.3%). The blood pressures (SBP and DBP) significantly correlated with age, stature, body mass and BMI (P<0.05). The findings demonstrate that elevated blood pressure is prevalent among urban Zimbabwean children and that there is need for routine measurement of BP to children residing in this region as part of physical examination for physical activity in schools. The use of BMI cutoffs tailored to metabolic risks may be vital for assessment of overweight. BP increased with age in both sexes, and this significantly correlated with age, stature, body weight and BMI.

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“…To enable inter-study comparisons, activity levels 1-2 were regarded as sedentary behaviour, activity level 3 as light physical activity and levels 4-5 as MVPA (Bower et al 2008;Nicaise, Kahan, and Sallis 2011;Pate et al 2008). Children's sedentary behaviour was described by the Activity-type code "Sitting, squatting, kneeling".…”

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Directly observed physical activity and fundamental motor skills in four-year-old children in day care

Iivonen

Sääkslahti

Mehtälä

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European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

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Physical activity (PA), its location, social interactions and fundamental motor skills were investigated in four-year-old Finnish children in day care. Six skills in the stability, locomotor and manipulative domains were assessed in 53 children (24 boys, 29 girls, normal anthropometry) with the APM-Inventory manual for assessing children's perceptual and fundamental motor skills (Numminen, 1995) and Total Motor Scores (TMS; 0-6 points) calculated. PA intensity, location, group composition and activity type − sitting, squatting, kneeling − were directly observed with a modified version of the Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children-Preschool Version (OSRAC-P) (Brown et al. 2006) during three consecutive days in 14 centres.

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Directly Observed Physical Activity Levels in Preschool Children

Cited by 257 publications

References 22 publications

Physical Activity of Preschool Children: A Review

Physical Activity of Preschool Children: A Review

Elevated Blood Pressure Among Zimbabwean Urban Primary School Children Aged 5–11 Years

Directly observed physical activity and fundamental motor skills in four-year-old children in day care

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