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Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study

BACKGROUND: An increase of sedentary behaviors far from the Mediterranean lifestyle is happening in spite of the impact on health. The aims of this study were to describe sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents. METHODS: A representative sample of 424 Spanish children and adolescents (38% fe...

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Autores principales: Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan, Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel, Castillo, Adrian, Ruiz, Emma, Avila, Jose M., Aranceta-Bartrina, Javier, Gil, Angel, Ortega, Rosa M., Serra-Majem, Lluis, Varela-Moreiras, Gregorio, González-Gross, Marcela
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28103843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4026-0
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author Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan
Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel
Castillo, Adrian
Ruiz, Emma
Avila, Jose M.
Aranceta-Bartrina, Javier
Gil, Angel
Ortega, Rosa M.
Serra-Majem, Lluis
Varela-Moreiras, Gregorio
González-Gross, Marcela
author_facet Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan
Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel
Castillo, Adrian
Ruiz, Emma
Avila, Jose M.
Aranceta-Bartrina, Javier
Gil, Angel
Ortega, Rosa M.
Serra-Majem, Lluis
Varela-Moreiras, Gregorio
González-Gross, Marcela
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description BACKGROUND: An increase of sedentary behaviors far from the Mediterranean lifestyle is happening in spite of the impact on health. The aims of this study were to describe sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents. METHODS: A representative sample of 424 Spanish children and adolescents (38% females) involved in the ANIBES study was analyzed regarding their sedentary behaviors, together with the availability of televisions, computers, and consoles by means of the HELENA sedentary behavior questionnaire. RESULTS: For the total sample of children, 49.3% during weekdays and 84% during weekends did not meet the recommendation of less than 2 hours of screen viewing per day. The use of TV was higher during weekdays (p < 0.05) and there were significant differences between adolescents and children (16.9 vs. 25.1%, p < 0.05). The use of computer, console games and of internet for non-study reasons was higher during weekends (p < 0.001). Adolescents played more computer games and used more internet for non-study reasons than children during both weekdays and weekends (p < 0.05 and p < 0.001, respectively). The use of internet for academic reasons was lower in children (p < 0.001) than adolescents during weekends; however, no significant differences were found between sexes. In addition, more than 30% of the children and adolescents had at least one electronic device in their bedrooms. CONCLUSIONS: Spanish children and adolescents are not meeting the recommendations regarding the maximum of screen viewing (<2 h/day), especially during the weekend, for all of sedentary behaviors. Urgent strategies and intervention studies are needed to reduce sedentary behavior in young people.
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spelling pubmed-52446082017-01-23 Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel Castillo, Adrian Ruiz, Emma Avila, Jose M. Aranceta-Bartrina, Javier Gil, Angel Ortega, Rosa M. Serra-Majem, Lluis Varela-Moreiras, Gregorio González-Gross, Marcela BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: An increase of sedentary behaviors far from the Mediterranean lifestyle is happening in spite of the impact on health. The aims of this study were to describe sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents. METHODS: A representative sample of 424 Spanish children and adolescents (38% females) involved in the ANIBES study was analyzed regarding their sedentary behaviors, together with the availability of televisions, computers, and consoles by means of the HELENA sedentary behavior questionnaire. RESULTS: For the total sample of children, 49.3% during weekdays and 84% during weekends did not meet the recommendation of less than 2 hours of screen viewing per day. The use of TV was higher during weekdays (p < 0.05) and there were significant differences between adolescents and children (16.9 vs. 25.1%, p < 0.05). The use of computer, console games and of internet for non-study reasons was higher during weekends (p < 0.001). Adolescents played more computer games and used more internet for non-study reasons than children during both weekdays and weekends (p < 0.05 and p < 0.001, respectively). The use of internet for academic reasons was lower in children (p < 0.001) than adolescents during weekends; however, no significant differences were found between sexes. In addition, more than 30% of the children and adolescents had at least one electronic device in their bedrooms. CONCLUSIONS: Spanish children and adolescents are not meeting the recommendations regarding the maximum of screen viewing (<2 h/day), especially during the weekend, for all of sedentary behaviors. Urgent strategies and intervention studies are needed to reduce sedentary behavior in young people. BioMed Central 2017-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5244608/ /pubmed/28103843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4026-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan
Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel
Castillo, Adrian
Ruiz, Emma
Avila, Jose M.
Aranceta-Bartrina, Javier
Gil, Angel
Ortega, Rosa M.
Serra-Majem, Lluis
Varela-Moreiras, Gregorio
González-Gross, Marcela
Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title_full Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title_fullStr Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title_full_unstemmed Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title_short Sedentary behavior among Spanish children and adolescents: findings from the ANIBES study
title_sort sedentary behavior among spanish children and adolescents: findings from the anibes study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28103843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4026-0
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