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Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents with a physical disability. METHODS: This controlled clinical trial included 71 children and adolescents from four schools...

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Autores principales: Zwinkels, Maremka, Verschuren, Olaf, Balemans, Astrid, Lankhorst, Kristel, te Velde, Saskia, van Gaalen, Leendert, de Groot, Janke, Visser-Meily, Anne, Takken, Tim
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00075
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author Zwinkels, Maremka
Verschuren, Olaf
Balemans, Astrid
Lankhorst, Kristel
te Velde, Saskia
van Gaalen, Leendert
de Groot, Janke
Visser-Meily, Anne
Takken, Tim
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Verschuren, Olaf
Balemans, Astrid
Lankhorst, Kristel
te Velde, Saskia
van Gaalen, Leendert
de Groot, Janke
Visser-Meily, Anne
Takken, Tim
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description OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents with a physical disability. METHODS: This controlled clinical trial included 71 children and adolescents from four schools for special education [mean age 13.7 (2.9) years, range 8–19, 55% boys]. Participants had various chronic health conditions including cerebral palsy (37%), other neuromuscular (44%), metabolic (8%), musculoskeletal (7%), and cardiovascular (4%) disorders. Before recruitment and based on the presence of school-based sports, schools were assigned as sport or control group. School-based sports were initiated and provided by motivated experienced physical educators. The sport group (n = 31) participated in a once-a-week school-based sports program for 6 months, which included team sports. The control group (n = 40) followed the regular curriculum. Anaerobic performance was assessed by the Muscle Power Sprint Test. Secondary outcome measures included aerobic performance, VO(2) peak, strength, physical activity, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, body composition, and the metabolic profile. RESULTS: A significant improvement of 16% in favor of the sport group was found for anaerobic performance (p = 0.003). In addition, the sport group lost 2.8% more fat mass compared to the control group (p = 0.007). No changes were found for aerobic performance, VO(2) peak, physical activity, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and the metabolic profile. CONCLUSION: Anaerobic performance and fat mass improved following a school-based sports program. These effects are promising for long-term fitness and health promotion, because sports sessions at school eliminate certain barriers for sports participation and adding a once-a-week sports session showed already positive effects for 6 months. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial was registered with the Dutch Trial Registry (NTR4698).
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spelling pubmed-58790832018-04-09 Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study Zwinkels, Maremka Verschuren, Olaf Balemans, Astrid Lankhorst, Kristel te Velde, Saskia van Gaalen, Leendert de Groot, Janke Visser-Meily, Anne Takken, Tim Front Pediatr Pediatrics OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents with a physical disability. METHODS: This controlled clinical trial included 71 children and adolescents from four schools for special education [mean age 13.7 (2.9) years, range 8–19, 55% boys]. Participants had various chronic health conditions including cerebral palsy (37%), other neuromuscular (44%), metabolic (8%), musculoskeletal (7%), and cardiovascular (4%) disorders. Before recruitment and based on the presence of school-based sports, schools were assigned as sport or control group. School-based sports were initiated and provided by motivated experienced physical educators. The sport group (n = 31) participated in a once-a-week school-based sports program for 6 months, which included team sports. The control group (n = 40) followed the regular curriculum. Anaerobic performance was assessed by the Muscle Power Sprint Test. Secondary outcome measures included aerobic performance, VO(2) peak, strength, physical activity, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, body composition, and the metabolic profile. RESULTS: A significant improvement of 16% in favor of the sport group was found for anaerobic performance (p = 0.003). In addition, the sport group lost 2.8% more fat mass compared to the control group (p = 0.007). No changes were found for aerobic performance, VO(2) peak, physical activity, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and the metabolic profile. CONCLUSION: Anaerobic performance and fat mass improved following a school-based sports program. These effects are promising for long-term fitness and health promotion, because sports sessions at school eliminate certain barriers for sports participation and adding a once-a-week sports session showed already positive effects for 6 months. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial was registered with the Dutch Trial Registry (NTR4698). Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5879083/ /pubmed/29632853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00075 Text en Copyright © 2018 Zwinkels, Verschuren, Balemans, Lankhorst, te Velde, van Gaalen, de Groot, Visser-Meily and Takken. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Zwinkels, Maremka
Verschuren, Olaf
Balemans, Astrid
Lankhorst, Kristel
te Velde, Saskia
van Gaalen, Leendert
de Groot, Janke
Visser-Meily, Anne
Takken, Tim
Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title_full Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title_fullStr Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title_full_unstemmed Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title_short Effects of a School-Based Sports Program on Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth With Physical Disabilities: Data From the Sport-2-Stay-Fit Study
title_sort effects of a school-based sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in youth with physical disabilities: data from the sport-2-stay-fit study
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00075
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