ReviewPreventive medicine reports2019
Effectiveness of early care and education center-based interventions for improving cardiovascular fitness in early childhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Review in Preventive medicine reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reviewing the association between motor competence and physical activity from a behavioral genetic perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Sustainability via Active Garden Education on preschool-aged children's locomotor skills.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Trial
- The Effect of Different Physical Exercise Programs on Physical Fitness among Preschool Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Spending patterns of middle schools that deliver multiple evidence-based physical activity and nutrition programs.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- The Influence of Kindergarten Environment on the Development of Preschool Children's Physical Fitness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- SUSTAINABILITY VIA ACTIVE GARDEN EDUCATION (SAGE): THE PROCESS OF INCORPORATING WATERING INTO STRUCTURED PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM.Agriculture & food · 2024Article
- Influence of pilot and small trials in meta-analyses of behavioral interventions: a meta-epidemiological study.Systematic reviews · 2023Review
- The Effect of Physical Exercise on Fundamental Movement Skills and Physical Fitness among Preschool Children: Study Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of Movement Behaviors on Overall Health and Appetite Control: Current Evidence and Perspectives in Children and Adolescents.Current obesity reports · 2022Review
- Early Care and Education Center Environmental Factors Associated with Product- and Process-Based Locomotor Outcomes in Preschool-Age Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Exploring Correlates of Preschool-Aged Children's Locomotor Skills: Individual and Parent Demographics and Home Environment.Perceptual and motor skills · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the literature on early care and education center (ECEC)-based physical activity interventions to identify ecologic environmental factors that improve cardiovascular fitness (CVF) in preschool-aged children. Data sources included PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library Trials, CINHAL, Science Direct, PsychINFO and SPORTDiscus. Peer-reviewed publications of studies that met the following criteria were eligible for inclusion: (1) mean age of participants between two and a half and five and a half years old enrolled in a pre-primary school; (2) randomized controlled trials or quasi-experimental interventions with a control group; (3) interventions occurring before, during, or immediately after school; (4) use of an objective measure or field-based estimate of CVF; (5) enrolled apparently healthy children. In June of 2018, titles (
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