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Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents
Background and objective: Population levels of physical activity are an international concern. The purpose of the present study was to describe and analyse physical activity levels in Lithuanian adolescents. Materials and methods: With this aim in mind, the Physician-based Assessment and Counselling...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30424496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina54050084 |
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author | López-Sánchez, Guillermo Felipe Emeljanovas, Arūnas Miežienė, Brigita Díaz-Suárez, Arturo Sánchez-Castillo, Sheila Yang, Lin Roberts, Justin Smith, Lee |
author_facet | López-Sánchez, Guillermo Felipe Emeljanovas, Arūnas Miežienė, Brigita Díaz-Suárez, Arturo Sánchez-Castillo, Sheila Yang, Lin Roberts, Justin Smith, Lee |
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description | Background and objective: Population levels of physical activity are an international concern. The purpose of the present study was to describe and analyse physical activity levels in Lithuanian adolescents. Materials and methods: With this aim in mind, the Physician-based Assessment and Counselling for Exercise (PACE) questionnaire was administered to 5141 adolescents residing in Lithuania, 2502 boys (48.7%) and 2639 girls (51.3%), aged between 11 and 19 years. Results: It was found that adolescents studied met the physical activity guideline, of 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity a day, on average 3.6 days/week (SD = 2.1). A total of 3426 adolescents (66.6%) were inactive as classified by the PACE questionnaire (at least 1 h of physical activity/day < 5 days/week). In the present sample there were more active (at least 1 h of physical activity/day ≥ 5 days/week) boys (n = 994, 39.7%) than girls (n = 721, 27.3%) (p < 0.001; OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.56 to 1.97), and, on average, boys were more likely to meet daily recommendations of physical activity than girls, 0.7 days more a week (p < 0.001; IRRs 1.21, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.25). According to age, younger adolescents (11–12 years) were significantly more active than older adolescents (13–19 years) and a curvilinear relationship between age and physical activity was observed with significant linear (unstandardized beta (B) = −0.807; standardized beta (β) = −0.796; p < 0.001) and quadratic terms (unstandardized beta (B) = 0.024; standardized beta (β) = 0.704; p < 0.001). Conclusions: It is necessary to increase the level of physical activity in Lithuanian adolescents and intervention programs should be carried out considering these results. |
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spelling | pubmed-62624842018-12-05 Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents López-Sánchez, Guillermo Felipe Emeljanovas, Arūnas Miežienė, Brigita Díaz-Suárez, Arturo Sánchez-Castillo, Sheila Yang, Lin Roberts, Justin Smith, Lee Medicina (Kaunas) Article Background and objective: Population levels of physical activity are an international concern. The purpose of the present study was to describe and analyse physical activity levels in Lithuanian adolescents. Materials and methods: With this aim in mind, the Physician-based Assessment and Counselling for Exercise (PACE) questionnaire was administered to 5141 adolescents residing in Lithuania, 2502 boys (48.7%) and 2639 girls (51.3%), aged between 11 and 19 years. Results: It was found that adolescents studied met the physical activity guideline, of 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity a day, on average 3.6 days/week (SD = 2.1). A total of 3426 adolescents (66.6%) were inactive as classified by the PACE questionnaire (at least 1 h of physical activity/day < 5 days/week). In the present sample there were more active (at least 1 h of physical activity/day ≥ 5 days/week) boys (n = 994, 39.7%) than girls (n = 721, 27.3%) (p < 0.001; OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.56 to 1.97), and, on average, boys were more likely to meet daily recommendations of physical activity than girls, 0.7 days more a week (p < 0.001; IRRs 1.21, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.25). According to age, younger adolescents (11–12 years) were significantly more active than older adolescents (13–19 years) and a curvilinear relationship between age and physical activity was observed with significant linear (unstandardized beta (B) = −0.807; standardized beta (β) = −0.796; p < 0.001) and quadratic terms (unstandardized beta (B) = 0.024; standardized beta (β) = 0.704; p < 0.001). Conclusions: It is necessary to increase the level of physical activity in Lithuanian adolescents and intervention programs should be carried out considering these results. MDPI 2018-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6262484/ /pubmed/30424496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina54050084 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article López-Sánchez, Guillermo Felipe Emeljanovas, Arūnas Miežienė, Brigita Díaz-Suárez, Arturo Sánchez-Castillo, Sheila Yang, Lin Roberts, Justin Smith, Lee Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title | Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title_full | Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title_short | Levels of Physical Activity in Lithuanian Adolescents |
title_sort | levels of physical activity in lithuanian adolescents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30424496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina54050084 |
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