International Comparison of the Levels and Potential Correlates of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity among Three-to-Four-Year-Old Children

Dias, Kaiseree I; White, James; Jago, Russell; Cardon, Greet; Davey, Rachel; Janz, Kathleen F; Pate, Russell R; Puder, Jardena J; Reilly, John J; Kipping, Ruth

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International Comparison of the Levels and Potential Correlates of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity among Three-to-Four-Year-Old Children

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Ruth Kipping

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Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK

Centre for Trials Research, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, 4th Floor Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, UK

Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 8 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK

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Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

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Centre for Research & Action in Public Health, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

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Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

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Obstetric service, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland

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School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1QE, UK

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(11), 1929; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111929

Received: 15 April 2019 / Revised: 17 May 2019 / Accepted: 26 May 2019 / Published: 31 May 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Community Child Health)

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Physical activity (PA) patterns track from childhood through to adulthood. The study aimed to determine the levels and correlates of sedentary time (ST), total PA (TPA), and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) in preschool-aged children. We conducted cross-sectional analyses of 1052 children aged three-to-four-years-old from six studies included in the International Children’s Accelerometry Database. Multilevel linear regression models adjusting for age, gender, season, minutes of wear time, and study clustering effects were used to estimate associations between age, gender, country, season, ethnicity, parental education, day of the week, time of sunrise, time of sunset, and hours of daylight and the daily minutes spent in ST, TPA, and MVPA. Across the UK, Switzerland, Belgium, and the USA, children in our analysis sample spent 490 min in ST per day and 30.0% and 21.2% of children did not engage in recommended daily TPA (≥180 min) and MVPA (≥60 min) guidelines. There was evidence for an association between all 10 potential correlates analyzed and at least one of the outcome variables; average daily minutes spent in ST, TPA and/or MVPA. These correlates can inform the design of public health interventions internationally to decrease ST and increase PA in preschoolers. View Full-Text

Keywords: child; preschool; accelerometry; physical activity; sedentary behavior; cross-sectional studies; ICAD

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Dias, K.I.; White, J.; Jago, R.; Cardon, G.; Davey, R.; Janz, K.F.; Pate, R.R.; Puder, J.J.; Reilly, J.J.; Kipping, R., on behalf of the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators. International Comparison of the Levels and Potential Correlates of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity among Three-to-Four-Year-Old Children. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 1929. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111929

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Dias KI, White J, Jago R, Cardon G, Davey R, Janz KF, Pate RR, Puder JJ, Reilly JJ, Kipping R on behalf of the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators. International Comparison of the Levels and Potential Correlates of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity among Three-to-Four-Year-Old Children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(11):1929. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111929

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Dias, Kaiseree I., James White, Russell Jago, Greet Cardon, Rachel Davey, Kathleen F. Janz, Russell R. Pate, Jardena J. Puder, John J. Reilly, and Ruth Kipping on behalf of the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators. 2019. "International Comparison of the Levels and Potential Correlates of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity among Three-to-Four-Year-Old Children" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 11: 1929. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111929

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