ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Nine Months of a Structured Multisport Program Improve Physical Fitness in Preschool Children: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of learning, exercise, and game curriculum model on the physical fitness of preschool children aged 3-6: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- A 12-week afterschool game-based physical activity program improves physical fitness of 9-10-year-old children: a randomized controlled study.Scientific reports · 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
- Effects of a Nine-Month Physical Activity Intervention on Morphological Characteristics and Motor and Cognitive Skills of Preschool Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Is Higher Frequency Always Better? The Dose-Response Relationship Between Structured Physical Activity Frequency and Physical Fitness Improvement in Preschool Children.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Article
- Effects of Developmental Gymnastics Exercise Program on Preschoolers' Motor Skills: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reallocation of time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and estimated changes in physical fitness among preschoolers: a compositional data analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The effects of physical exercise on fitness and emotion in Chinese preschoolers.BMC public health · 2024Article
- 24-H movement behaviors and physical fitness in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2024Article
- The Influence of Kindergarten Environment on the Development of Preschool Children's Physical Fitness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Effects of Structured Physical Activity on Motor Fitness in Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Article
- Motor Coordination in Children: A Comparison between Children Engaged in Multisport Activities and Swimming.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of running-based versus body-weight-based high-intensity interval training on physical fitness in healthy adolescents.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Single and Especially Multisport Participation May Increase Physical Fitness in Younger Americans.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- In It for the Long Haul: RE-AIM Evaluation of a Preschool Programme Implementing and Maintaining Adult-Initiated Motor Skill Development and Physical Activity across a Two-Year Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- An Intervention Pattern of Family Parent-Child Physical Activity Based on a Smartphone App for Preschool Children during COVID-19.BioMed research international · 2022Article
- Field-based physical fitness assessment in preschool children: A scoping review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Physical Activity of Serbian Children in Daycare.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Anthropometric and Motor Competence Classifiers of Swimming Ability in Preschool Children-A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Research in preschool children that investigates the impact of different exercise interventions on physical fitness is limited. This pre-post study was aimed at determining if participation in a nine-month structured multisport program (MSG; n = 38) could enhance physical fitness components compared to a formal exercise program (control group (CG); n = 36) among preschool children. Physical fitness was assessed using standardized tests (the standing long jump, sit and reach, 20 m sprint, sit-ups for 30 s, bent-arm hang, medicine ball throw (MBT), grip strength, 4 × 10 m shuttle run, and 20 m shuttle run tests). The structured multisport program involved fundamental/gross and fine motor skills and ball game-based exercises twice a week. The control group was free of any programmed exercise except for the obligatory program in kindergartens. A mixed ANOVA demonstrated significant group-by-time interaction effects for the 4 × 10 m shuttle run, standing long jump, sit-ups, bent-arm hang, grip strength, and sit and reach tests (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.