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Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep in Children

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2023) | Viewed by 5813

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Zhiguang Zhang

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: physical activity; sedentary behaviour; sleep; overweight and obesity; cognitive development; motor skills; early years; childhood

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Movement behaviours, including physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep, are associated with multiple physical, social, and cognitive outcomes in children. These behaviours are also interrelated and have combined effects on children’s health and development. It is therefore important to understand how to best intervene to improve these behaviours to facilitate optimal health and development in children.

This Special Issue aims to bring together high-quality, multi-disciplinary research papers focusing on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep in the early years, middle childhood, and adolescence. Specifically, interventions targeting individual or a combination of these behaviours in various settings (homes, childcare settings, schools, or communities), as well as studies examining prevalence, patterns, correlates, and associations with health and developmental outcomes, are suitable for consideration in this Special Issue. Research using a cross-cultural approach or focusing on children from low- and middle-income countries is especially welcome.

Dr. Zhiguang Zhang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • active play
  • sports
  • physical education
  • sitting
  • screen time
  • sleep
  • early childhood
  • young children
  • school-aged children
  • adolescents

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Proportion of Chinese Children and Adolescents Meeting 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Associations with Overweight and Obesity
by Yi Sun, Yuan Liu, Xiaojian Yin, Ming Li, Ting Zhang, Feng Zhang, Yaru Guo and Pengwei Sun
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1408; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021408 - 12 Jan 2023
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Background: Since there is little knowledge about the 24-hour movement behaviors of Chinese children and adolescents, the purposes of this study were to investigate the proportion of Chinese children and adolescents meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and to further evaluate its relationship with [...] Read more.
Background: Since there is little knowledge about the 24-hour movement behaviors of Chinese children and adolescents, the purposes of this study were to investigate the proportion of Chinese children and adolescents meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and to further evaluate its relationship with overweight and obesity. Methods: A total of 440 children and adolescents aged 7–18 years from 7 cities in China were selected to measure physical activity using accelerometers, and sleep (SLP) and screen time (ST) using questionnaires. The data were analyzed with the independent T-test, Mann–Whitney U test, Cox–Stuart test, chi-square test, and logistic regression. Results: The proportion of Chinese children and adolescents meeting the overall 24-Hour Movement Guidelines was 7.3%. Boys (11.8%) were higher than girls (3.4%) (p < 0.001) and showed a downward trend with age (Ptrend = 0.03). The rates of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents who met the ST, MVPA + ST, ST + SLP, and MVPA + SLP + ST guidelines were 39%, 15%, and 36%, and 25% did not meet any guidelines. The rates of overweight and obesity among those who met 1, 2, and 3 guidelines were lower than the rate among those who did not meet any guidelines (odds ratio (OR) = 0.51, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.22–1.17; OR = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.13–0.77; OR = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.07–0.81) and showed a decreasing trend (Ptrend = 0.006). Conclusions: The proportion of Chinese children and adolescents meeting the overall 24-Hour Movement Guidelines was low. The rate of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents who met the overall 24-Hour Movement Guidelines was the lowest compared with the rates among those who met any one or two. There was a dose–response relationship between the number of guidelines met and the overweight and obesity rate. Full article
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Physical Activity Levels and Sleep in Schoolchildren (6–17) with and without School Sport
by Arkaitz Larrinaga-Undabarrena, Xabier Río, Iker Sáez, Garazi Angulo-Garay, Aitor Martinez Aguirre-Betolaza, Neritzel Albisua, Gorka Martínez de Lahidalga Aguirre, José Ramón Sánchez Isla, Natalia García, Mikel Urbano, Myriam Guerra-Balic, Juan Ramón Fernández and Aitor Coca
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1263; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021263 - 10 Jan 2023
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There is strong evidence to support the association between daily physical activity and sleep parameters in children and adolescents. Physical activity and outdoor play are favourably associated with most sleep outcomes in school children. The aim is to find out the levels of [...] Read more.
There is strong evidence to support the association between daily physical activity and sleep parameters in children and adolescents. Physical activity and outdoor play are favourably associated with most sleep outcomes in school children. The aim is to find out the levels of physical activity and the quality of sleep in Basque schoolchildren aged between six and seventeen and to analyse the possible differences between those who carry out some kind of physical sports activity and those who do not. The sample consisted of 1082 schoolchildren (50.1% male and 49.9% female). Differences between groups were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test (2 samples) and Kruskal–Wallis one-factor ANOVA (k samples). A total of 723 (66.94%) of the participants said they practiced some physical sports activity. The accelerometers obtained significant differences in all levels of physical activity, as well as in sleep efficiency, with higher levels of physical activity (sedentary p = 0.001; light p = 0.017; moderate p = 0.009; vigorous p = 0.001 and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity p = 0.002) and better sleep efficiency (p = 0.002) in those schoolchildren who perform some type of physical sports activity. A significant difference in time spent in sedentary activities was also observed between primary and secondary school pupils of both sexes and regardless of the degree of physical sports activity completion. Full article
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