ArticleJMIR serious games2022
Effect of an Active Video Game Intervention Combined With Multicomponent Exercise for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Active Video Games Against Obesity and Sedentarism in Children Between 9 and 11 Years Old: a Disruptive Proposal
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Comparative effectiveness of school-based exercise interventions on physical fitness in children and adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Composition and Characterization of the Different Lipoproteins in Overweight/Obese Children vs. Normal-Weight Children.Biomolecules · 2026Article
- Active Video Gaming and Obesity in Children 6-12 Years Old: A Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Effects of a Personalized Augmented Reality Exercise Program Based on Basic Fitness on Key Components of Physical Fitness in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Lipid metabolism in overweight/obese children vs. normal weight children in a north-eastern region of Spain.Advances in laboratory medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of Different Exercise Interventions on Health Status in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents: A Network Meta-Analysis.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundChildhood overweight and obesity have become major global health problems and are negatively related with the cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) level in school children and adolescents. Exercise, specifically multicomponent training, is effective for CRF improvement, but the main challenge is to ensure adherence to exercise in children with overweight and obesity. Therefore, new ways of exercising that are more attractive and motivational for this population are needed and playing or training with active video games (AVGs) has been proposed as an effective alternative because they require full-body movement and therefore increase energy expenditure.
objectiveThe main aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an AVG intervention combined with multicomponent training on CRF at maximal and submaximal intensities in children with overweight or obesity.
methodsWe recruited 28 children (13 girls and 15 boys) aged 9 to 11 years with overweight or obesity from medical centers and divided them into 2 groups, an intervention group (n=20) that participated in a 5-month supervised AVG exercise program combined with multicomponent exercise, and a control group (n=8) that continued daily activities without modification. A maximal stress test to measure CRF using a walking-graded protocol with respiratory gas exchange was performed by the participants.
resultsThe AVG group showed a significant decrease in heart rate and oxygen uptake for the same intensities in the submaximal stages of the maximal treadmill test, as well as a lower oxygen uptake percentage according to the individual maximal oxygen uptake, whereas the control group did not show overall changes. No change in the peak oxygen uptake (VO
conclusionsA 5-month AVG intervention combined with multicomponent exercise had positive effects on CRF at submaximal intensity, showing a lower heart rate and oxygen uptake at the same intensities and displaying a lower oxygen uptake percentage according to the individual (VO
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04418713; https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04418713.
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