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Elementary school physical activity opportunities and physical fitness of students: A statewide cross-sectional study of schools.
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- Educational outcomes of recess in elementary school children: A mixed-methods systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- School-related sedentary behaviours and indicators of health and well-being among children and youth: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring the Relationship between Fundamental Movement Skills and Health-Related Fitness among First and Second Graders in Korea: Implications for Healthy Childhood Development.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives of before-school physical activity.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Multiscale Impact of Environmental and Socio-Economic Factors on Low Physical Fitness among Chinese Adolescents and Regionalized Coping Strategies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- US School-Based Physical Fitness Assessments and Data Dissemination.The Journal of school health · 2021Article
- Promoting Health-Related Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Physical Education: The Role of Class Intensity and Habitual Physical Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Observational
- Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of school characteristics on changes in physical activity opportunities.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundUsing a cross-sectional design, we assessed the relationship between the time schools provide for physical activity and the proportion of students achieving a healthy aerobic capacity or body mass index.
methodsIn 2013-2014, physical education and grade-level teachers from 905 of 1,244 Georgia elementary schools provided survey data about the frequency and duration of physical activity opportunities offered before, during, and after school. Log-binomial models related the weekly physical activity minutes provided by schools to the proportion of children in the FitnessGram healthy fitness zone for aerobic capacity or body mass index while adjusting for school characteristics and demographics.
resultsDuring-school physical activity time was not associated with student fitness, but schools with before-school physical activity programs had a moderately higher prevalence of healthy aerobic capacity (prevalence ratio among girls: 1.06; 99% confidence interval: 1.00-1.13; prevalence ratio among boys: 1.03; 99% confidence interval: 0.99-1.08). Each additional 30 minutes of recess per week was associated with no more than a 3%-higher proportion of students with healthy body mass indexes (prevalence ratio among girls: 1.01; 99% confidence interval: 1.00-1.03; prevalence ratio among boys: 1.01; 99% confidence interval: 0.99-1.03).
conclusionsThe amount of physical activity time provided by schools is not strongly associated with school-aggregated student fitness. Future studies should be designed to assess the importance of school-based physical activity time on student fitness, relative to physical activity type and quality.
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