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Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children

Regular physical activity (PA) reduces the health risk of childhood obesity and associated chronic diseases as well as mental health problems. Since PA declines as children age as well with future generations it is of highest importance to intervene in school and out-of-school settings. Out-of-schoo...

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Autores principales: Volmut, Tadeja, Pišot, Rado, Planinšec, Jurij, Šimunič, Boštjan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7848070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537285
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.631141
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author Volmut, Tadeja
Pišot, Rado
Planinšec, Jurij
Šimunič, Boštjan
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Planinšec, Jurij
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description Regular physical activity (PA) reduces the health risk of childhood obesity and associated chronic diseases as well as mental health problems. Since PA declines as children age as well with future generations it is of highest importance to intervene in school and out-of-school settings. Out-of-school periods affect children's PA as it is mainly left to the interest and motivation of their parents. We compared accelerometer-based PA patterns in 93 6- to 9-year old children assessed four times: before (May/June), during (August), and after (September) summer holidays and at a 1-year follow up (May/June). Before summer holidays children were assessed also for anthropometry and motor tests. During summer holidays overall PA decreased by 18% (p < 0.001), physical inactivity increased by 5.5% (p < 0.001), moderate PA decreased by 53% (p < 0.001) and moderate to vigorous PA decreased by 45% (p < 0.001) when compared to before summer holidays. Furthermore, overall PA remained diminished also after summer holidays by 8.8% (p = 0.001) but recovered to baseline values at 1-year follow up. About 30% of overall PA and moderate to vigorous PA decrease during summer holidays could be explained by children's fitness level as a greater decrease was found in children with better results in standing long jump and 300-meter running time. Our finding detects an alarming summer holiday decrease in children PA that should not be neglected in future studies and intervention designs.
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spelling pubmed-78480702021-02-02 Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children Volmut, Tadeja Pišot, Rado Planinšec, Jurij Šimunič, Boštjan Front Public Health Public Health Regular physical activity (PA) reduces the health risk of childhood obesity and associated chronic diseases as well as mental health problems. Since PA declines as children age as well with future generations it is of highest importance to intervene in school and out-of-school settings. Out-of-school periods affect children's PA as it is mainly left to the interest and motivation of their parents. We compared accelerometer-based PA patterns in 93 6- to 9-year old children assessed four times: before (May/June), during (August), and after (September) summer holidays and at a 1-year follow up (May/June). Before summer holidays children were assessed also for anthropometry and motor tests. During summer holidays overall PA decreased by 18% (p < 0.001), physical inactivity increased by 5.5% (p < 0.001), moderate PA decreased by 53% (p < 0.001) and moderate to vigorous PA decreased by 45% (p < 0.001) when compared to before summer holidays. Furthermore, overall PA remained diminished also after summer holidays by 8.8% (p = 0.001) but recovered to baseline values at 1-year follow up. About 30% of overall PA and moderate to vigorous PA decrease during summer holidays could be explained by children's fitness level as a greater decrease was found in children with better results in standing long jump and 300-meter running time. Our finding detects an alarming summer holiday decrease in children PA that should not be neglected in future studies and intervention designs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7848070/ /pubmed/33537285 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.631141 Text en Copyright © 2021 Volmut, Pišot, Planinšec and Šimunič. http://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(s) 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.
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Pišot, Rado
Planinšec, Jurij
Šimunič, Boštjan
Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children
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title_full Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children
title_fullStr Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children
title_full_unstemmed Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children
title_short Physical Activity Drops During Summer Holidays for 6- to 9-Year-Old Children
title_sort physical activity drops during summer holidays for 6- to 9-year-old children
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7848070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537285
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.631141
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