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International comparison of the levels and potential correlates of objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity among 3-4-year old children

Dias, K., White, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453, Jago, R., Cardon, G., Davey, R., Janz, K., Pate, R., Purder, J., Reilly, J. and Kipping, R. 2019. International comparison of the levels and potential correlates of objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity among 3-4-year old children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (11) , 1929. 10.3390/ijerph16111929

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Abstract

Physical activity (PA) patterns track from childhood through to adulthood. The study aimed to determine the levels and correlates of sedentary time (ST), total PA (TPA), and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) in preschool-aged children. We conducted cross-sectional analyses of 1052 children aged three-to-four-years-old from six studies included in the International Children’s Accelerometry Database. Multilevel linear regression models adjusting for age, gender, season, minutes of wear time, and study clustering effects were used to estimate associations between age, gender, country, season, ethnicity, parental education, day of the week, time of sunrise, time of sunset, and hours of daylight and the daily minutes spent in ST, TPA, and MVPA. Across the UK, Switzerland, Belgium, and the USA, children in our analysis sample spent 490 min in ST per day and 30.0% and 21.2% of children did not engage in recommended daily TPA (≥180 min) and MVPA (≥60 min) guidelines. There was evidence for an association between all 10 potential correlates analyzed and at least one of the outcome variables; average daily minutes spent in ST, TPA and/or MVPA. These correlates can inform the design of public health interventions internationally to decrease ST and increase PA in preschoolers.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Centre for Trials Research (CNTRR)
Publisher: MDPI
ISSN: 1660-4601
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 10 June 2019
Date of Acceptance: 26 May 2019
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 10:17
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/123356

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