Longitudinal active living research to address physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour in children in transition from preadolescence to adolescence

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Nazeem Muhajarine ; Tarun R Katapally ; Daniel Fuller ; Kevin G Stanley…
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：997 KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458

文摘

Background Children can be highly active and highly sedentary on the same day! For instance, a child can spend a couple of hours playing sports, and then spend the rest of the day in front of a screen. A focus on examining both physical activity and sedentary behaviour throughout the day and in all seasons in a year is necessary to generate comprehensive evidence to curb childhood obesity. To achieve this, we need to understand where within a city are children active or sedentary in all seasons. This active living study based in Saskatoon, Canada, aims to understand the role played by modifiable urban built environments in mitigating, or exacerbating, seasonal effects on children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour in a population of children in transition from preadolescence to adolescence.