ArticleBMC public health2017
Cross-sectional associations between sleep duration, sedentary time, physical activity, and adiposity indicators among Canadian preschool-aged children using compositional analyses.
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- Infants' and toddlers' physical activity and sedentary time as measured by accelerometry: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic review of the relationships between combinations of movement behaviours and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years).BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
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- Compositional movement behaviours and preschool children's social-emotional development.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Factors associated with meeting the recommendations for physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep in adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2026Article
- Are reallocating time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity associated with preschoolers' body composition?International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Weekday-specific associations of movement behaviors with body composition in preschool children: A compositional data analysis.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- Physical activity and sedentary pattern compositions and cardiometabolic risk in preschoolers.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2025Article
- Association between physical activity, sleep, and screen time and cardiometabolic risk factors among Brazilian adolescents: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative sample.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between 24-hour movement behaviors and growth, motor, and social-emotional development in early childhood.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2025Article
- Associations between physical fitness and different aspects of screen time in children and adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The association between 24-h movement behaviours and adiposity among Australian preschoolers: a compositional data analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSleep duration, sedentary behaviour, and physical activity are three co-dependent behaviours that fall on the movement/non-movement intensity continuum. Compositional data analyses provide an appropriate method for analyzing the association between co-dependent movement behaviour data and health indicators. The objectives of this study were to examine: (1) the combined associations of the composition of time spent in sleep, sedentary behaviour, light-intensity physical activity (LPA), and moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) with adiposity indicators; and (2) the association of the time spent in sleep, sedentary behaviour, LPA, or MVPA with adiposity indicators relative to the time spent in the other behaviours in a representative sample of Canadian preschool-aged children.
methodsParticipants were 552 children aged 3 to 4 years from cycles 2 and 3 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey. Sedentary time, LPA, and MVPA were measured with Actical accelerometers (Philips Respironics, Bend, OR USA), and sleep duration was parental reported. Adiposity indicators included waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) z-scores based on World Health Organization growth standards. Compositional data analyses were used to examine the cross-sectional associations.
resultsThe composition of movement behaviours was significantly associated with BMI z-scores (p = 0.006) but not with WC (p = 0.718). Further, the time spent in sleep (BMI z-score: γ
conclusionsThis study is the first to use compositional analyses when examining associations of co-dependent sleep duration, sedentary time, and physical activity behaviours with adiposity indicators in preschool-aged children. The overall composition of movement behaviours appears important for healthy BMI z-scores in preschool-aged children. Future research is needed to determine the optimal movement behaviour composition that should be promoted in this age group.
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