ArticlePloS one2022
Is body fat mass associated with worse gross motor skills in preschoolers? An exploratory study.
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- Relationship Between Fundamental Motor Skill Proficiency and the Development of Overweight and Obesity in Normally Developing Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Developmental Delays Across Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Language and Social Domains in Malaysian Children Aged 6-59 Months.Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- An investigation of the relationship and pathways of influence between body mass index, motor coordination, and health-related physical fitness index in preschool children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Effects of an 8-Week Active Play Intervention on Body Composition and Fundamental Motor Skills in Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of underweight, overweight, and obesity on the body growth of preschoolers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Motor skills at 7 years of age and spinal pain at 11 years of age: a cohort study of 26,000 preadolescents.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- A school-family blended multi-component physical activity program for Fundamental Motor Skills Promotion Program for Obese Children (FMSPPOC): protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Individual and environmental parameters in children with and without developmental coordination disorder: associations with physical activity and body mass index.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
We compared the motor competence between overweight/obese and eutrophic preschoolers with similar physical activity levels, age, socioeconomic status, maternal education, quality of the home environment and quality of the school environment. We also investigated to what extent excess body fat mass explains gross motor skills in preschoolers. A cross-sectional quantitative and exploratory study was conducted with 48 preschoolers assigned into eutrophic and overweight/obese groups. Overweight/obese preschoolers had worse Locomotor subtest standard scores than the eutrophic ones (p = 0.01), but similar Object Control subtest and Gross Motor Quotient scores (p > 0.05). Excess body fat mass explained 12% of the low Locomotor subtest standard scores in preschoolers (R2 = 0.12; p = 0.007). Excess body fat mass was associated with worse locomotor skills when the model was adjusted for physical activity levels, age, socioeconomic status, maternal education, quality of the home environment and quality of the school environment. Thus, excess body fat mass partly explains lower locomotor skills in preschoolers.
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