ReviewBMC family practice2008
Exploring and explaining low participation in physical activity among children and young people with asthma: a review.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.
- Asthma risk in young people who attended chlorinated swimming pools in early childhood.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Pooled it
- Physical training for asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Effect of physical training on airway inflammation in bronchial asthma: a systematic review.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2013Pooled it
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- Barriers to and facilitators of exercise in children with asthma: protocol for a qualitative meta-synthesis.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Assessment of the Physical Activity of Children with Asthma Bronchiale.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exercise Rehabilitation and Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Effects, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Benefits.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2023Review
- Feasibility of exercise therapy for children with asthma: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Translating Promoting Factors and Behavior Change Principles Into a Blended and Technology-Supported Intervention to Stimulate Physical Activity in Children With Asthma (Foxfit): Design Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
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- Can long-term regular physical activity improve health outcomes among adults with asthma-evidence from a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
- An Overview of the Obese-Asthma Phenotype in Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Exercise Limitation in Children and Adolescents with Mild-to-Moderate Asthma.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2022Article
- Physical fitness of children and youth with asthma in comparison to the reference population : Cross-sectional results of the population-based MoMo study in Germany.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2021Article
- The Relationship of Satisfaction and Worry about Physical Activity with Physical-Activity Level in Children with Asthma.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Low fitness and increased sedentary time are associated with worse asthma-The National Youth Fitness Survey.Pediatric pulmonology · 2020Article
- Association between Physician-Diagnosed Asthma and Weight Status among Chinese Children: The Roles of Lifestyle Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Exercise and lifestyle changes in pediatric asthma.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2020Review
- Promoting Factors for Physical Activity in Children with Asthma Explored through Concept Mapping.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Understanding an Environmental Health Risk: Investigating Asthma Risk Perception in Ontario Youth Sport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAsthma is the most common chronic illness among children and accounts for 1 in 5 of all child GP consultations. This paper reviews and discusses recent literature outlining the growing problem of physical inactivity among young people with asthma and explores the psychosocial dimensions that may explain inactivity levels and potentially relevant interventions and strategies, and the principles that should underpin them.
methodsA narrative review based on an extensive and documented search of search of CinAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Library. RESULTS & DISCUSSION: Children and young people with asthma are generally less active than their non-asthmatic peers. Reduced participation may be influenced by organisational policies, family illness beliefs and behaviours, health care advice, and inaccurate symptom perception and attribution. Schools can be reluctant to encourage children to take part in physical education or normal play activity due to misunderstanding and a lack of clear corporate guidance. Families may accept a child's low level of activity if it is perceived that breathlessness or the need to take extra inhalers is harmful. Many young people themselves appear to accept sub-optimal control of symptoms and frequently misinterpret healthy shortness of breath on exercising with the symptoms of an impending asthma attack.
conclusionA multi-faceted approach is needed to translate the rhetoric of increasing activity levels in young people to the reality of improved fitness. Physical activity leading to improved fitness should become part of a goal orientated management strategy by schools, families, health care professionals and individuals. Exercise induced asthma should be regarded as a marker of poor control and a need to increase fitness rather as an excuse for inactivity. Individuals' perceptual accuracy deserves further research attention.
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