Comparison of the Effects of Stable and Dynamic Furniture on Physical Activity and Learning in Children

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• 作者：Jeanette M. Garcia ; Terry T. Huang ; Matthew Trowbridge…
• 关键词：Accelerometer ; Energy expenditure ; Ergonomics ; Health promotion ; Physical activity
• 刊名：The Journal of Primary Prevention
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：37
• 期：6
• 页码：555-560
• 全文大小：386 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Public Health
  Health Psychology
  Community and Environmental Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6547
• 卷排序：37

文摘

We compared the effects of traditional (stable) and non-traditional (dynamic) school furniture on children’s physical activity (PA), energy expenditure (EE), information retention, and math skills. Participants were 12 students (8.3 years, 58 % boys) in grades 1–5. Participants wore an Actigraph GT3X+ accelerometer (to assess PA), and an Oxycon Mobile indirect calorimetry device (to assess EE) for 40 min (20 min for each session). Each session consisted of a nutrition lecture, multiple choice questions related to the lecture, and grade-appropriate math problems. We used paired t tests to examine differences between the stable and dynamic furniture conditions. Average activity counts were significantly greater in the dynamic than the stable furniture condition (40.82 vs. 9.81, p < 0.05). We found no significant differences between conditions for average oxygen uptake (p = 0.34), percentage of nutrition questions (p = 0.5), or math problems (p = 0.93) answered correctly. Movement was significantly greater in the dynamic than the stable furniture condition, and did not impede information acquisition or concentration. Future studies should compare the long-term effects of traditional and dynamic furniture on health and academic outcomes in schools and other settings.