Obesity and physical activity patterns among Balearic Islands children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Muntaner‐Mas, Adrià; Conti, Josep Vidal; Cantallops, Jaume; Borràs, Pere Antoni; Palou, Pere

doi:10.14198/jhse.2017.122.10

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“…Al-Haifi and colleagues (23) revealed that being physically active was associated with lower BMI, thus providing support for the role of physical activity in the maintenance of body weight and prevention of obesity. These findings are consistent with findings from other studies showing that engaging in physical activity can assist in healthful weight-control behaviours (24)(25)(26)).…”

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Pattern of physical activity among school children aged 14-15 years in the district of Kalutara, Sri Lanka

Godakanda¹,

Abeysena

Lokubalasooriya³

2018

J Coll Community Phys Sri Lanka

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Background: Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for NCD related global mortality. Sri Lanka is on the verge of an epidemic of NCDs. It is imperative that the pattern of physical activity is assessed among adolescents. Objective: To describe the pattern of physical activity among school children aged 14-15 years in the district of Kalutara Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in a sample of 1795 children in government schools in the district of Kalutara. The sample was selected using a multistage cluster sampling method with probabilityproportionate-to the size. A total of 90 class rooms (clusters) were included and the average cluster size was 20. The pattern of physical activity was assessed using the validated Physical Activity QuestionnaireS. Moderate to vigorous physical activities for at least 60 minutes per day for ≥5 days per week were categorized as 'sufficiently active'. Chi-squared test was applied to compare the physical activity level with selected factors. Results: Only 33.1% (n=595) of the adolescents were sufficiently active. Of them, 30.6% (246/805) females and 35.1% (349/990) males were sufficiently active (p=0.04). Of the overweight adolescents, 26.7% (48/176) were sufficiently active, which was significantly different from the normal (35.1%, 412/1175) and underweight (30.4%, 135/144) groups (p=0.04). Only 13.9% (n=249) adolescents participated on three or more days a week in sport clubs, aerobics, dancing or martial art during out-of-school hours; and 66.4% (n=1195) in one or more sport clubs during the previous year. Only 4.8% (n=86) adolescents were active on three or more days during school physical exercise period and 46.8% (n=842) traveling by bicycle to school and back during the previous week. Almost 80% (n=1407) of the adolescents learnt about benefits of physical exercise; 66.2% (n=1187) to develop a plan of physical exercise to improve it; and 80% (n=1434) on injury prevention of physical exercise during the previous year from the schools. Conclusions: Only 33.1% of the adolescents were sufficiently active. Males were more active than females. Participation of physical exercise activities within school and out-of-school hours was low.

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Pattern of physical activity among school children aged 14-15 years in the district of Kalutara, Sri Lanka

Godakanda¹,

Abeysena

Lokubalasooriya³

2018

J Coll Community Phys Sri Lanka

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“…Indeed, not only does every child’s PA differ in duration and intensity, but it also varies according to spaces/places [ 6 ], segments of the day [ 7 ], weather conditions [ 8 ], and seasons [ 9 ]. Such complexity has raised the bar and challenged researchers to also understand children’s PA patterns (PAP) so as to better grasp its meaning and relevance as well as health benefits [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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A Systematic Review of Children’s Physical Activity Patterns: Concept, Operational Definitions, Instruments, Statistical Analyses, and Health Implications

Gomes

Katzmarzyk

Pereira

et al. 2020

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Despite the widespread use of the expression “physical activity pattern” (PAP), there apparently is no general consensus regarding its definition. This systematic review aimed to examine available research focussing on (1) definitions of PAP, (2) instruments/techniques used to describe PAP, (3) statistical approaches used to analyse PAP, and (4) implications of PAP on children’s health. A systematic review of the available literature was done to identify studies published up to October 2019, and 76 studies were eligible. None of the studies presented a formal definition of PAP; a wide range of instruments were used to investigate children’s PAP, and most of the revised studies did not explicitly present a formal statistical model to define PAP. Twenty-four papers purported to examine associations between PAP and health indicators. The review highlights no consensus on a clear PAP definition whatever the instrument used to capture it, and we did not find any agreement regarding how best to analyse PAP. We suggest that PAP should be used when targeting the investigation of similarities/dissimilarities, as well as stabilities and/or changes in children’s PA at an intra-personal level. In sum, PAP should be used to best describe individual streams of behaviours, and not exclusively PA levels/intensities.

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“…The development of obesity in young people today is the main threat to public health in the Republic of Bangladesh (Biswas, Islam, Islam, et al, 2017). The prevalence of overweight and various stages of obesity among young people in the Balearic Islands reaches 20% (Muntaner-Mas, Vidal-Conti, Cantallops, et al, 2017). It was revealed that during the training many students of universities and colleges receive a serious increase in weight, which can lead to significant problems in their health (Gowin, Cheney, Gwin, et al, 2015).…”

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2018

JPES

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Recently, there has been an increase in the number of young people who are overweight and obese reaching the scale of a global epidemic. Besides, the scientists have recorded a significant increase in the body weights of the students during their study years. One of the reasons for this phenomenon may be a lack of knowledge by innovative students about the risks of developing obesity and related chronic diseases. There is a need for comprehensive and long-term research to increase students' knowledge of the problems associated with developing obesity. In any case it is necessary to make an objective assessment of the physical development level of students, their physical activity level, their everyday lifestyle and food quality. Therefore in this study, we analyzed and evaluated the changes of the physical development and health parameters of the students from the Siberian federal university (SFU) over a long time period (2002-2014). Material & methods: Meanwhile, annually 800 students of the 1-3 courses of the SFU selected at random and took part in the study. Half of the examined students were the boys (n=400) and the other half were the girls (n=400). Moreover, both the boys and girls were allocated into two equal groups. It is important to note that there were the groups: male-1 (n=200) and female-1 (n=200) who were relatively healthy students. There were the groups: male-2 (n=200) and female-2 (n=200) where the students were with various diseases. An important point is that the age of the researched students is between 18-20 years. The main parameters of the study included the body weighing of the young people indicating their growth and the restoration time of the functional systems of the body after the load test (A. Martinet test). All in all the authors' opinion is that the values of these parameters will allow giving an objective assessment of the presence or absence of a threat of developing obesity and overweight among the students. Results: The obtained data allow to come to a conclusion about the significant increase (P <0.01) in the average body weight of the students in the groups male-1 and male-2 for the period from 2002 to 2014. On average, the body weight of the students increased by 6 ± 0.4 kg. It makes sense that in the groups of girls there were female-1 and female-2 and minor fluctuations of body weight were discovered during quite a long period from 2006 to 2014. In addition, the evolution of the growth values of the students was mixed among the boysmale-1 in different periods of the research. Besides, the boys who are the male-2 revealed a significant increase (P<0.01) in the average growth of young people from 177±0.5 cm in 2002 to 180±0.2 cm in 2014. In fact, the dynamics of growth in the groups of girls who were female-1and female-2 was mixed in different periods of the research. The average growth rates among the girls of both groups were found within the range of 2 ± 0.3 cm. in a word, the indices of the recovery interval of the students' body after the test load allowed us to disti...

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Obesity and physical activity patterns among Balearic Islands children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Pattern of physical activity among school children aged 14-15 years in the district of Kalutara, Sri Lanka

Pattern of physical activity among school children aged 14-15 years in the district of Kalutara, Sri Lanka

A Systematic Review of Children’s Physical Activity Patterns: Concept, Operational Definitions, Instruments, Statistical Analyses, and Health Implications

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