Patterns of daily activity and time spent in bed of adult women and adolescent and preadolescent girls from a rural community in Senegal, West Africa

Abstract

Background: In rural Africa, women and adolescent girls sustain a high burden of

Fat and muscle mass in different groups of pre-pubertal and pubertal rural children. Cross-cultural comparisons between Sahelian (rural Senegal) and Amazonian (Beni River, Bolivia) children

“…This anomaly is usually transient, but a delay in puberty timing is observed in young gymnasts and dancers. The Senegalese girls and boys studied by our group had a very high level of activity (Ndiaye and Benefice 2007). These observations fit with postponement of maturity.…”

Sleep duration, quality, and timing and their associations with age in a community without electricity in haiti

“…The primary limitation of all of these studies is that they relied on self-reported sleep duration and timing. One study among women in Senegal did use hip accelerometry to estimate time in bed (Ndiaye and Benefice, 2007), but this is not validated to estimate sleep duration or quality. Thus, objective estimates of sleep patterns in developing countries are lacking.…”

Physical Activity Assessed by Accelerometry in Rural African School-Age Children and Adolescents

“…Although scarce, the number of studies on PA levels in school-aged samples from Africa seems to be growing. In general, those studies have focused on the association between PA levels and nutritional status (21,23). Surprisingly, those studies have failed to show any association between malnutrition defined by anthropometry, and PA levels in school-aged samples from Africa.…”