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Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates

BACKGROUND: Sedentary behaviour in children is related to different health consequences such as overweight and cardio-metabolic diseases that can track into adulthood. Previous studies have shown that children spend hours being sedentary, but no data of sedentary time (ST) among German children has...

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Autores principales: Hoffmann, Belinda, Kettner, Sarah, Wirt, Tamara, Wartha, Olivia, Hermeling, Lina, Steinacker, Jürgen M., Kobel, Susanne
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29046786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0230-8
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author Hoffmann, Belinda
Kettner, Sarah
Wirt, Tamara
Wartha, Olivia
Hermeling, Lina
Steinacker, Jürgen M.
Kobel, Susanne
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Kettner, Sarah
Wirt, Tamara
Wartha, Olivia
Hermeling, Lina
Steinacker, Jürgen M.
Kobel, Susanne
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description BACKGROUND: Sedentary behaviour in children is related to different health consequences such as overweight and cardio-metabolic diseases that can track into adulthood. Previous studies have shown that children spend hours being sedentary, but no data of sedentary time (ST) among German children has been available, yet. Therefore, this study investigated objectively measured amounts and correlates of ST in a sample of German primary school children. METHODS: Children’s physical activity (PA) was objectively assessed for 6 days using a multi-sensor device (Actiheart®; CamNtech, Cambridge, UK). Activity levels were categorized on the basis of energy expenditure (MET) into sedentary, light PA (LPA), and moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA). ST excluding sleeping hours was assessed for 231 children (7.1 ± 0.6 years, male: 45.9%) and analysed for independent groups. Examined factors (parental education, household income, and migration background) were assessed by parental questionnaire. Children’s weight, height and gender were collected in schools. Weight status was calculated on the basis of BMI percentiles. RESULTS: On average, children spent 3.5 ± 1.5 h daily being sedentary, excluding sleeping hours. Significantly higher ST was found in girls (t = −4.6; p < 0.01), in children with migration background (t = −6.9; p < 0.01), at the weekend (t = −2.8; p < 0.01), and among inactive children (t = 6.8; p < 0.01). Additionally, significant correlations with ST in this sample were identified for MVPA (B = −0.99; [−1.09;-0.88], p < 0.01), LPA (B = −0.89; [−0.97;-0.82], p < 0.01), migration background (B = −17.64; [5.24;30.04], p < 0.01), gender (B = −13.48; [−25.94;-1.01], p < 0.05) and household income (B = −4.80; [−9.07; −0.53], p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Girls, children with migration background, and inactive children were identified as potential risk groups. A higher income was associated with less ST. In general, ST was higher at the weekend. Furthermore, as PA was found to be negatively correlated to ST, these activities may replace each other. Therefore, these findings should be considered in future health interventions. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), DRKS-ID: DRKS00000494 DATE: 25/08/2010.
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spelling pubmed-56372702017-10-18 Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates Hoffmann, Belinda Kettner, Sarah Wirt, Tamara Wartha, Olivia Hermeling, Lina Steinacker, Jürgen M. Kobel, Susanne Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Sedentary behaviour in children is related to different health consequences such as overweight and cardio-metabolic diseases that can track into adulthood. Previous studies have shown that children spend hours being sedentary, but no data of sedentary time (ST) among German children has been available, yet. Therefore, this study investigated objectively measured amounts and correlates of ST in a sample of German primary school children. METHODS: Children’s physical activity (PA) was objectively assessed for 6 days using a multi-sensor device (Actiheart®; CamNtech, Cambridge, UK). Activity levels were categorized on the basis of energy expenditure (MET) into sedentary, light PA (LPA), and moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA). ST excluding sleeping hours was assessed for 231 children (7.1 ± 0.6 years, male: 45.9%) and analysed for independent groups. Examined factors (parental education, household income, and migration background) were assessed by parental questionnaire. Children’s weight, height and gender were collected in schools. Weight status was calculated on the basis of BMI percentiles. RESULTS: On average, children spent 3.5 ± 1.5 h daily being sedentary, excluding sleeping hours. Significantly higher ST was found in girls (t = −4.6; p < 0.01), in children with migration background (t = −6.9; p < 0.01), at the weekend (t = −2.8; p < 0.01), and among inactive children (t = 6.8; p < 0.01). Additionally, significant correlations with ST in this sample were identified for MVPA (B = −0.99; [−1.09;-0.88], p < 0.01), LPA (B = −0.89; [−0.97;-0.82], p < 0.01), migration background (B = −17.64; [5.24;30.04], p < 0.01), gender (B = −13.48; [−25.94;-1.01], p < 0.05) and household income (B = −4.80; [−9.07; −0.53], p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Girls, children with migration background, and inactive children were identified as potential risk groups. A higher income was associated with less ST. In general, ST was higher at the weekend. Furthermore, as PA was found to be negatively correlated to ST, these activities may replace each other. Therefore, these findings should be considered in future health interventions. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), DRKS-ID: DRKS00000494 DATE: 25/08/2010. BioMed Central 2017-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5637270/ /pubmed/29046786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0230-8 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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Kettner, Sarah
Wirt, Tamara
Wartha, Olivia
Hermeling, Lina
Steinacker, Jürgen M.
Kobel, Susanne
Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title_full Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title_fullStr Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title_full_unstemmed Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title_short Sedentary time among primary school children in south-west Germany: amounts and correlates
title_sort sedentary time among primary school children in south-west germany: amounts and correlates
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29046786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0230-8
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