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Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents
OBJECTIVES: The objective was to determine recent cross-sectional trends in health-related fitness (HRF) in secondary school students by studying the 13–14 years old age group repeatedly over 6 years, considering parallel national trends in physical education (PE). METHODS: Height, weight, broad jum...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8768926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35127132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001165 |
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author | Weedon, Benjamin David Liu, Francesca Mahmoud, Wala Burden, Samuel Joseph Whaymand, Luke Esser, Patrick Collett, Johnny Izadi, Hooshang Joshi, Shawn Meaney, Andy Delextrat, Anne Kemp, Steve Jones, Alexander Dawes, Helen |
author_facet | Weedon, Benjamin David Liu, Francesca Mahmoud, Wala Burden, Samuel Joseph Whaymand, Luke Esser, Patrick Collett, Johnny Izadi, Hooshang Joshi, Shawn Meaney, Andy Delextrat, Anne Kemp, Steve Jones, Alexander Dawes, Helen |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The objective was to determine recent cross-sectional trends in health-related fitness (HRF) in secondary school students by studying the 13–14 years old age group repeatedly over 6 years, considering parallel national trends in physical education (PE). METHODS: Height, weight, broad jump, grip strength, 20 m shuttle run and throwing and catching skills were measured by the same research team using standardised techniques from 2014 to 2019. Trends in these HRF measures were assessed by linear regression, adjusting for school, sex and height. Interactions with fitness and body mass index (BMI) were tested. The number of PE lessons reported in the UK Annual School Workforce Census between 2010 and 2019 for all state-funded secondary schools was analysed. RESULTS: Grip strength (B=−0.60, 95% CI −0.78 to –0.41), broad jump (B=−1.16, 95% CI −1.99 to –0.34), 20 m shuttle run (B=−1.85, 95% CI −2.58 to –1.12) and throwing and catching skills (B=−0.12, 95% CI −0.15 to –0.08) declined significantly over the study period. There was a greater reduction in broad jump and grip strength in adolescents with low fitness and a greater reduction in fitness and motor competence in adolescents with normal BMI. These declines coincided with a 16% reduction nationally in secondary school PE between 2010 (333 800 hours) and 2019 (280 725 hours). CONCLUSION: Adolescent HRF has declined in recent years, in parallel with PE lessons. Declines were observed across all young people and particularly those of low fitness and normal BMI. To reach the majority of young people, policy makers could increase PE in schools to increase activity and prevent worsening fitness and health in future generations. |
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spelling | pubmed-87689262022-02-04 Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents Weedon, Benjamin David Liu, Francesca Mahmoud, Wala Burden, Samuel Joseph Whaymand, Luke Esser, Patrick Collett, Johnny Izadi, Hooshang Joshi, Shawn Meaney, Andy Delextrat, Anne Kemp, Steve Jones, Alexander Dawes, Helen BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Original Research OBJECTIVES: The objective was to determine recent cross-sectional trends in health-related fitness (HRF) in secondary school students by studying the 13–14 years old age group repeatedly over 6 years, considering parallel national trends in physical education (PE). METHODS: Height, weight, broad jump, grip strength, 20 m shuttle run and throwing and catching skills were measured by the same research team using standardised techniques from 2014 to 2019. Trends in these HRF measures were assessed by linear regression, adjusting for school, sex and height. Interactions with fitness and body mass index (BMI) were tested. The number of PE lessons reported in the UK Annual School Workforce Census between 2010 and 2019 for all state-funded secondary schools was analysed. RESULTS: Grip strength (B=−0.60, 95% CI −0.78 to –0.41), broad jump (B=−1.16, 95% CI −1.99 to –0.34), 20 m shuttle run (B=−1.85, 95% CI −2.58 to –1.12) and throwing and catching skills (B=−0.12, 95% CI −0.15 to –0.08) declined significantly over the study period. There was a greater reduction in broad jump and grip strength in adolescents with low fitness and a greater reduction in fitness and motor competence in adolescents with normal BMI. These declines coincided with a 16% reduction nationally in secondary school PE between 2010 (333 800 hours) and 2019 (280 725 hours). CONCLUSION: Adolescent HRF has declined in recent years, in parallel with PE lessons. Declines were observed across all young people and particularly those of low fitness and normal BMI. To reach the majority of young people, policy makers could increase PE in schools to increase activity and prevent worsening fitness and health in future generations. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8768926/ /pubmed/35127132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001165 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Weedon, Benjamin David Liu, Francesca Mahmoud, Wala Burden, Samuel Joseph Whaymand, Luke Esser, Patrick Collett, Johnny Izadi, Hooshang Joshi, Shawn Meaney, Andy Delextrat, Anne Kemp, Steve Jones, Alexander Dawes, Helen Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title | Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title_full | Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title_fullStr | Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title_short | Declining fitness and physical education lessons in UK adolescents |
title_sort | declining fitness and physical education lessons in uk adolescents |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8768926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35127132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001165 |
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