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“AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study
BACKGROUND: Projection of the effectiveness of house-hold physical activity may be a vital tool to improve active lifestyle. Although ampe is a common house-hold recreational physical activity among all population groups especially school children in Ghana, no empirical evidence of its effects on th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116443 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v30i1.18 |
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author | MOmoniyi, Moses M Afrifa, Daniel Asamoah, M Anthony Sarpong, Priscilla Sarpong, Emmanuel Appiah, P Opoku Akoto, Francisca |
author_facet | MOmoniyi, Moses M Afrifa, Daniel Asamoah, M Anthony Sarpong, Priscilla Sarpong, Emmanuel Appiah, P Opoku Akoto, Francisca |
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description | BACKGROUND: Projection of the effectiveness of house-hold physical activity may be a vital tool to improve active lifestyle. Although ampe is a common house-hold recreational physical activity among all population groups especially school children in Ghana, no empirical evidence of its effects on the anthropometric and physiological parameters of the children. This pilot study examined the effect of ampe exercise programme on the anthropometric and physiological parameters of school children. METHODS: Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were applied to recruit 78 school children (ages of 9 to 12, mean age of 10.65±0.94 years). The participants attended 40 minutes of ampe exercise program three times per week, for four weeks consecutively. Body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio; % body fat, diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure and heart rate were measured prepost training. RESULTS: Ampe exercise programme produced positive effects on all parameters. Body weight (0.31%) and body mass index (0.58%) decreased significantly (P<0.05). Systolic blood pressure (3.15%), diastolic blood pressure (1.92%) and heart rate (2.13) significantly improved (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Ampe exercise programme is effective as paediatric obesity house-hold intervention to provide the impetus for active lifestyles of school children. |
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spelling | pubmed-70364532020-02-28 “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study MOmoniyi, Moses M Afrifa, Daniel Asamoah, M Anthony Sarpong, Priscilla Sarpong, Emmanuel Appiah, P Opoku Akoto, Francisca Ethiop J Health Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Projection of the effectiveness of house-hold physical activity may be a vital tool to improve active lifestyle. Although ampe is a common house-hold recreational physical activity among all population groups especially school children in Ghana, no empirical evidence of its effects on the anthropometric and physiological parameters of the children. This pilot study examined the effect of ampe exercise programme on the anthropometric and physiological parameters of school children. METHODS: Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were applied to recruit 78 school children (ages of 9 to 12, mean age of 10.65±0.94 years). The participants attended 40 minutes of ampe exercise program three times per week, for four weeks consecutively. Body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio; % body fat, diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure and heart rate were measured prepost training. RESULTS: Ampe exercise programme produced positive effects on all parameters. Body weight (0.31%) and body mass index (0.58%) decreased significantly (P<0.05). Systolic blood pressure (3.15%), diastolic blood pressure (1.92%) and heart rate (2.13) significantly improved (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Ampe exercise programme is effective as paediatric obesity house-hold intervention to provide the impetus for active lifestyles of school children. Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7036453/ /pubmed/32116443 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v30i1.18 Text en © 2019 Moses O., et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article MOmoniyi, Moses M Afrifa, Daniel Asamoah, M Anthony Sarpong, Priscilla Sarpong, Emmanuel Appiah, P Opoku Akoto, Francisca “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title | “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title_full | “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title_fullStr | “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title_full_unstemmed | “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title_short | “AMPE” Exercise Programme Has Positive Effects on Anthropometric and Physiological Parameters of School Children: A Pilot Study |
title_sort | “ampe” exercise programme has positive effects on anthropometric and physiological parameters of school children: a pilot study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116443 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v30i1.18 |
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