ArticlePreventive medicine2018
Temporal and bi-directional associations between sleep duration and physical activity/sedentary time in children: An international comparison.
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- Physical activity and sleep patterns in children attending after-school programs in Arizona: a cross-sectional study.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2026Article
- Bidirectional associations between smart device use and body mass index among children aged 3 to 5 years: a longitudinal study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
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- Factors associated with late bedtimes, early wake-up times, and short sleep in adolescents on school nights.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- The association of telomere length with body mass index and immunological factors differs according to physical activity practice among children and adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- The Impact of the Double School Shift System on Lifestyle Behaviors Among Mexican Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Child, family and household characteristics associated with physical activity in Samoan children aged 3-8 years: A cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Continuous-time modeling of the multivariate relationships between physical activity levels and stationary time in preschool-aged children: an investigation of the ActivityStat hypothesis.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2023Article
- Qualitative study of the association between psychosocial health and physical activity/sleep quality in toddlers.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Association between Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Physical Fitness with Body Mass Index and Sleep Time in Chilean Girls and Boys: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Physical Activity Levels and Sleep in Schoolchildren (6-17) with and without School Sport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Development and testing of the Sleep Health And Wellness Questionnaire (SHAWQ) in adolescents and university students: composite SHAWQ scores are associated with sleep problems, depression symptoms, and academic performance.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
- Temporal Associations between Actigraphy-Measured Daytime Movement Behaviors and Nap Sleep in Early Childhood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this multinational and cross-sectional study was to investigate whether nighttime sleep duration was associated with physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (SED) the following day, whether daytime PA/SED were associated with sleep duration the subsequent night, and whether the associations were modified by sex and study sites. Data from 5779 children aged 9-11years were analyzed. A waist-worn Actigraph GT3X+ accelerometer was used to assess children's 24-h movement behaviours for 7days, i.e. sleep duration, total SED, light-intensity physical activity (LPA), and moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA). Multilevel linear regression models were used to account for the repeated measures nested within participants (there were up to 7 sleep→PA/SED and PA/SED→sleep pairings per participant) and schools, and adjusted for covariates. To facilitate interpretation, all sleep and PA/SED variables were standardized. Results showed that the relationship between sleep and PA/SED is bi-directional in this international sample of children. Specifically, for each one standard deviation (SD) unit increase in sleep duration, SED the following day decreased by 0.04 SD units, while LPA and MVPA increased by 0.04 and 0.02 SD units, respectively. Sleep duration decreased by 0.02 SD units and increased by 0.04 SD units for each one SD unit increase in SED and MVPA, respectively. Sleep duration was not affected by changes in LPA. These associations differed across sex and study sites in both directions. However, since the observed effect sizes are subtle, public health initiatives should consider the clinical and practical relevance of these findings.
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