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Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies
This cross-sectional study compared the physical fitness and mental health status of 140 school-age children who participated in sport-specific training with 180 age-matched peers. All the participants were grouped by sport-specific training frequencies in extracurricular time into the following: (i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33665022 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10842 |
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author | Jiang, Ruichen Xie, Chun Shi, Jilong Mao, Xuechen Huang, Qin Meng, Fanying Ji, Zhiguang Li, Anmin Zhang, Chunhua |
author_facet | Jiang, Ruichen Xie, Chun Shi, Jilong Mao, Xuechen Huang, Qin Meng, Fanying Ji, Zhiguang Li, Anmin Zhang, Chunhua |
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description | This cross-sectional study compared the physical fitness and mental health status of 140 school-age children who participated in sport-specific training with 180 age-matched peers. All the participants were grouped by sport-specific training frequencies in extracurricular time into the following: (i) high sports training frequency group (HFG): training three to five times per week (n = 77, mean [SD] age: 9.60 [0.12] years); (ii) low sports training frequency group (LFG): training once per week (n = 63, mean [SD] age: 9.88 [0.14] years); and (iii) control group (CG): maintaining routine life (n = 180, mean (SD) age: 9.77(0.09) years). Physical fitness status, including body composition (body mass index), endurance (vital capacity; 50 × 8 round trip), speed and agility (50 m sprint), flexibility (sit-and-reach), coordination (1-min rope skipping), and core strength (1-min sit-ups) as well as mental health status was measured. Overall, the results showed that Grade 3 to 4 HFG students showed better total physical fitness scores than the LFG and CG students. Grade 2 and 5 participants in the three groups showed no significant difference in the total physical fitness score. Children in HFG performed better in several PF indicators (i.e., cardiopulmonary function, flexibility, core strength, and coordination) than those in LFG and CG, and children in LFG got a higher score than those in CG on a testing item of 1-min rope skipping. The mental health test results showed that HFG performed better than LFG and CG. The results indicated that participating in sport-specific training 3–5 times per week was beneficial for children’s physical and mental health. Additionally, there was a weak and negative correlation between physical fitness and mental health in LFG and CG, while no correlation was found between physical fitness and mental health in HFG. |
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spelling | pubmed-79060392021-03-03 Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies Jiang, Ruichen Xie, Chun Shi, Jilong Mao, Xuechen Huang, Qin Meng, Fanying Ji, Zhiguang Li, Anmin Zhang, Chunhua PeerJ Kinesiology This cross-sectional study compared the physical fitness and mental health status of 140 school-age children who participated in sport-specific training with 180 age-matched peers. All the participants were grouped by sport-specific training frequencies in extracurricular time into the following: (i) high sports training frequency group (HFG): training three to five times per week (n = 77, mean [SD] age: 9.60 [0.12] years); (ii) low sports training frequency group (LFG): training once per week (n = 63, mean [SD] age: 9.88 [0.14] years); and (iii) control group (CG): maintaining routine life (n = 180, mean (SD) age: 9.77(0.09) years). Physical fitness status, including body composition (body mass index), endurance (vital capacity; 50 × 8 round trip), speed and agility (50 m sprint), flexibility (sit-and-reach), coordination (1-min rope skipping), and core strength (1-min sit-ups) as well as mental health status was measured. Overall, the results showed that Grade 3 to 4 HFG students showed better total physical fitness scores than the LFG and CG students. Grade 2 and 5 participants in the three groups showed no significant difference in the total physical fitness score. Children in HFG performed better in several PF indicators (i.e., cardiopulmonary function, flexibility, core strength, and coordination) than those in LFG and CG, and children in LFG got a higher score than those in CG on a testing item of 1-min rope skipping. The mental health test results showed that HFG performed better than LFG and CG. The results indicated that participating in sport-specific training 3–5 times per week was beneficial for children’s physical and mental health. Additionally, there was a weak and negative correlation between physical fitness and mental health in LFG and CG, while no correlation was found between physical fitness and mental health in HFG. PeerJ Inc. 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7906039/ /pubmed/33665022 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10842 Text en ©2021 Jiang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Kinesiology Jiang, Ruichen Xie, Chun Shi, Jilong Mao, Xuechen Huang, Qin Meng, Fanying Ji, Zhiguang Li, Anmin Zhang, Chunhua Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title | Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title_full | Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title_fullStr | Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title_short | Comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
title_sort | comparison of physical fitness and mental health status among school-age children with different sport-specific training frequencies |
topic | Kinesiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33665022 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10842 |
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