Physical activity and sedentary behaviours in youth: Data from three Central‐Eastern European countries

Biddle, Stuart J. H.; Soós, István; Hamar, Pál; Sandor, Iosif; Šimonek, Jaromír; Karsai, István

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“…In a study by Biddle et al (2009) done in CentralEastern European youth (mean age 15.5 years) we can find parallels with our investigation. Sedentary behaviour prevails in both genders during weekend days.…”

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Decrease in weekend number of steps in adolescents

Vašíčková¹,

Frömel²,

Groffik³

et al. 2013

Acta Gymnica

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BACKGROUND:The activities with which young people spend the weekends do not support the prevalence of an active and healthy lifestyle enough. There are research evidence-based results that physical activity performed during weekend days is lower than physical activity in weekdays. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to find out to what extent young people achieve recommended levels of physical activity on weekends and to identify possible differences with regard to nationality or gender. METHODS: Research was realised between 2008 and 2011 at randomly selected schools in the Czech Republic and in Poland. The week long step count monitoring had 786 participants in the Czech Republic and 673 participants in Poland aged 15-16 years. The online system INDARES was used to answer questionnaires and gather data from pedometers. RESULTS: Results showed that young people on average record lower numbers of steps on weekends compared to schooldays (difference is 1,356 steps/day; F(1, 1458) = 147.61; p ≈ .000; ω 2 = .232***). The most critical day of the week is Sunday. The simplified recommended amount of 11,000 steps/day is achieved by 65.93% of Czech boys and 64.73% of Czech girls (49.28% of Polish boys and 42.92% of Polish girls) on schooldays, whereas only by 42.59% of Czech boys and 43.8% of Czech girls (40.1% of Polish boys and 39.27% of Polish girls) on weekends. There were no significant differences between boys and girls in terms of average number of steps per day. CONCLUSION: Reducing the weekend would certainly not secure effective advancement of physical activity and healthy lifestyle among young people, yet a change of their values and creating a habit of spending weekends actively is imperative. Use of the internet mainly in boys and use of pedometers mainly in girls are some of the tools to stimulate physical activity and healthy lifestyle in youth.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Decrease in weekend number of steps in adolescents

Vašíčková¹,

Frömel²,

Groffik³

et al. 2013

Acta Gymnica

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“…In this last group, 50% of the studies evaluated PA at random times over 4 consecutive days: from Saturday to Tuesday-1 [17], from Friday to Monday-3 [27, 28, 31] and over 3 weekdays and 1 day over the weekend-1 [23]. …”

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Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Evaluate Current Physical Activity

Marszałek

Morgulec‐Adamowicz

Rutkowska

et al. 2014

BioMed Research International

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Objective. The purpose of this study was to assess the value of ecological momentary assessment in evaluating physical activity among children, adolescents, and adults. It also determines whether ecological momentary assessment fulfills the criteria of validity, reliability, objectivity, norms, and standardization applied to the tools used for the evaluation of physical activity. Methods. The EBSCO-CINHAL, Medline, PsycINFO, PubMed, and SPORTDiscuss databases were reviewed in December 2012 for articles associated with EMA. Results. Of the 20 articles examined, half (10) used electronic methods for data collection, although various methods were used, ranging from pen and paper to smartphone applications. Ten studies used objective monitoring equipment. Nineteen studies were performed over 4 days. While the validity of the EMA method was discussed in 18 studies, only four found it to be objective. In all cases, the EMA procedures were precisely documented and confirmed to be feasible. Conclusions. Ecological momentary assessment is a valid, reliable, and feasible approach to evaluate activity and sedentary behavior. Researchers should be aware that while ecological momentary assessment offers many benefits, it simultaneously imposes many limitations which should be considered when studying physical activity.

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“…At the age of 15 years they participate only 49 minutes per day during the working week and even less during the weekend -only 35 minutes per day. Other authors such as Pratt et al (1999), Sigmund et al (2007), Biddle et al (2009) also stated that the low percentage of sport activities in their spare time during the working week should be the reason for increasing parental support and e.g. lead to various interventions from the state, national and international institutions.…”

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“…Opinions of urban children are probably more influenced by the environment they live in. Some authors (Kučera, 1999;Liba & Uherová, 2003;Biddle et al, 2009;Bebčáková et al2012) indicate that the lack or absence of exercise poses a threat to a human body. Therefore, it is important for children to perceive their motives for taking part in sport activities in accordance with those implications.…”

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In this study we focused on primary school students; girls and boys of the 8 th and the 9 th grades in two selected regions in Slovakia (n = 2005, 1012 boys and 993 girls) and analysed their opinions on the amount of time, forms, motives and ways of taking part in sport activities (SA) in their spare time. The opinions were investigated using a questionnaire method in the academic year 2014/15. We assessed differences in terms of intersexuality (boys and girls), the place of school residence (town or village) and the region (the Central Slovak Region and the East Slovak Region). We found out that in accordance with modern tendencies, our respondents spend insufficient amount of time on SA. In terms of motives for taking part in SA, recreational sports in interest groups and collective sports with friends predominate. Their greatest stimuli come from their parents. The greatest differences in answers occurred when we examined motives which lead them towards taking part in SA. Despite this fact, the most frequent answer was "health improvement and body weight strength". The most frequent negative aspect of taking part in SA was specified as "high financial demands". Insignificant differences in answers occurred in forms of spending spare time, in factors preventing them from taking part in SA and in a choice of preferred location for SA. In terms of residence, insignificant differences were noted in the amount of time spent on SA and their forms during weekends. From a regional perspective, insignificant differences occurred in the amount of time spent on SA and their form and character during weekends. Key words: amount of time, forms, motives, possibilities, primary school boys and girls from urban and rural schools IntroductionSport activities of children and young people performed at school and as extracurricular activities have changed significantly over the last ten or twenty years. Many children are unconcerned about physical education, sport activities and sport. Passive forms of spare time activities include watching TV and playing computer games, surfing the web or chatting on a mobile phone predominate. Favourite activities include meeting in peer groups and parties unfortunately; they do not always do appropriate activities, namely sports (Miklánková et al., 2009). There is strong evidence to demonstrate the physical and psychological benefits of sport activities. Despite the fact that people are aware of these positive benefits, the number of obese people, people with body posture problems and low motion literacy, the less psychologically resilient are all on the increase. At the same time, there are still more and more people who demand financial and material security and are concerned with their appearance. Numerous foreign and national studies prove that low or even sub-standard sport activities, altogether with obesity, are increasing. E.g. Ruston et al. (2004) in their research carried out at the turn of millennia noticed an alarming increase in obesity in Great Britain. According to the...

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Physical activity and sedentary behaviours in youth: Data from three Central‐Eastern European countries

Cited by 26 publications

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Decrease in weekend number of steps in adolescents

Decrease in weekend number of steps in adolescents

Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Evaluate Current Physical Activity

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