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Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation
Adolescence is a crucial time in the development and maintenance of lifestyle habits. Interventions to improve health-related behaviors are important, including those that can contribute to an increase in physical activity (PA). During adolescence, PA typically decreases with age, particularly in gi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32570878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124388 |
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author | Paiement, Karine Drapeau, Vicky Gilbert, Jo-Anne Lemoyne, Jean Moreau, Nicolas Monthuy-Blanc, Johana Tremblay, Jonathan Marcil, Valérie Mathieu, Marie-Eve |
author_facet | Paiement, Karine Drapeau, Vicky Gilbert, Jo-Anne Lemoyne, Jean Moreau, Nicolas Monthuy-Blanc, Johana Tremblay, Jonathan Marcil, Valérie Mathieu, Marie-Eve |
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description | Adolescence is a crucial time in the development and maintenance of lifestyle habits. Interventions to improve health-related behaviors are important, including those that can contribute to an increase in physical activity (PA). During adolescence, PA typically decreases with age, particularly in girls. The FitSpirit program offers services that help Canadian schools from Quebec and Ontario implement PA interventions for adolescent girls. This study aimed to evaluate changes in participants’ PA levels and lifestyle habits (sedentary time, sleep duration and eating habits) and to assess whether these changes depended on adherence to the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Canada’s Food Guide recommendations at enrollment. At the time of FitSpirit registration (between December 2018 and March 2019) and in May/June 2019, 73 participants answered online questionnaires. The participants reported improvements, with an increase in the number of days with PA and a decrease in daily consumption of sweets. The greatest changes were observed in those who did not adhere to the Canadian recommendations before enrollment and who significantly increased their number of days with PA and their consumption of fruits and vegetables, and decreased their screen time. In conclusion, participation in FitSpirit improved several health behaviors among adolescent girls, particularly those who did not comply with the Canadian recommendations at enrollment. |
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spelling | pubmed-73460092020-07-14 Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation Paiement, Karine Drapeau, Vicky Gilbert, Jo-Anne Lemoyne, Jean Moreau, Nicolas Monthuy-Blanc, Johana Tremblay, Jonathan Marcil, Valérie Mathieu, Marie-Eve Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Adolescence is a crucial time in the development and maintenance of lifestyle habits. Interventions to improve health-related behaviors are important, including those that can contribute to an increase in physical activity (PA). During adolescence, PA typically decreases with age, particularly in girls. The FitSpirit program offers services that help Canadian schools from Quebec and Ontario implement PA interventions for adolescent girls. This study aimed to evaluate changes in participants’ PA levels and lifestyle habits (sedentary time, sleep duration and eating habits) and to assess whether these changes depended on adherence to the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Canada’s Food Guide recommendations at enrollment. At the time of FitSpirit registration (between December 2018 and March 2019) and in May/June 2019, 73 participants answered online questionnaires. The participants reported improvements, with an increase in the number of days with PA and a decrease in daily consumption of sweets. The greatest changes were observed in those who did not adhere to the Canadian recommendations before enrollment and who significantly increased their number of days with PA and their consumption of fruits and vegetables, and decreased their screen time. In conclusion, participation in FitSpirit improved several health behaviors among adolescent girls, particularly those who did not comply with the Canadian recommendations at enrollment. MDPI 2020-06-18 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7346009/ /pubmed/32570878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124388 Text en © 2020 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 Paiement, Karine Drapeau, Vicky Gilbert, Jo-Anne Lemoyne, Jean Moreau, Nicolas Monthuy-Blanc, Johana Tremblay, Jonathan Marcil, Valérie Mathieu, Marie-Eve Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title | Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title_full | Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title_fullStr | Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title_full_unstemmed | Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title_short | Changes in Lifestyle Habits among Adolescent Girls after FitSpirit Participation |
title_sort | changes in lifestyle habits among adolescent girls after fitspirit participation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32570878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124388 |
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