ArticlePreventive medicine reports2021
The association between physical fitness, sports club participation and body mass index on health-related quality of life in primary school children from a socioeconomically deprived area of England.
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- Physical fitness as a predictor of health-related quality of life in children.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Health and health equity in policymaking across sectors: Identifying opportunities and challenges in implementing Health in All Policies.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Identifying daily-living features related to loneliness: A causal machine learning approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- Health-related quality of life of children from low-income families: the new patterns study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of domain-specific physical activity composition with health-related quality of life in childhood and adolescence in Australia.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
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- Effects of fundamental movement skills on health-related quality of life in Chinese school-age children: the mediating role of physical fitness level.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Assessment of Motor Abilities and Physical Fitness in Youth in the Context of Talent Identification-OSF Test.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life in Spanish Schoolchildren and Its Association with the Fitness Status and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
We examined associations between physical fitness components, body mass index (BMI) and sports club participation on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 8- to 11-year-old children from a socioeconomically deprived region of England. From May-October 2019, 432 children completed the HRQoL questionnaire Kidscreen-27 and Leisure Time Physical Activity Survey, and a physical fitness testing battery of 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT), handgrip strength (Handgrip), standing broad jump (Broad Jump), and sit-and-reach. Height, body mass, BMI and somatic maturity data were collected. Comparisons with reference populations were undertaken using a quintile framework. Linear and quantile regression assessed associations between physical fitness components and HRQoL variables. Using English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, 90% of children were from the most deprived quintile and 39% were overweight or obese. More children scored poorly on the Physical Wellbeing (40%) and Psychological Wellbeing (45%) HRQoL domains than the reference population (31%). Physical fitness scores were generally classed as 'low'-'very low' (42-58%). 20mSRT and Broad Jump performance explained an additional 10.7% of variance in Physical Wellbeing after adjusting for BMI z-score, sex and age (total R
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