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26]. They can provide an environment which affords their children playful opportunities, allowing them to practice different motor activities and improve their skills [27]. The role of parents within a physical activity intervention may therefore foster more active lifestyles during...
To this end, the current study examines the incorporation (or lack thereof), of health-related physical activity in 40 preschools in Indiana. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire to indicate what health-related physical activity they were incorporating in their classroom curricula. In...
Parents were also asked to complete a medical health history questionnaire for their child to determine if the child was eligible for the study (i.e. the child has none of the aforementioned contraindications) and to report the ethnicity and age of the child. Pre-experimental testing ...
were a biological father, step-father, or male guardian of a child aged 3–5 years, lived with their child at least 50% of the week, were able to attend all assessments, indicated availability for program sessions and able to pass a pre-exercise screening questionnaire for physical activity...
Coombs NA, Stamatakis E (2015) Associations between objectively assessed and questionnaire-based sedentary behaviour with BMI-defined obesity among general population children and adolescents living in England. BMJ Open 5(6):e007172. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007172 Article PubMed PubMed...
Preschool age children Autonomic activity Heart rate variability SNAP-IV Gender difference Introduction Attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a syndrome of inattention, restless overactivity and impulsiveness [1]. It is one of the most common childhood-onset psychiatric disorders and affe...
Teachers and teachers-aids were also asked to complete a questionnaire regarding their attitude, knowledge, and confidence related to physical activity, healthy eating, and recreational screen time. At follow-up, the Directors and teachers were re-interviewed and surveyed using the same instruments ...
However, since the age range in both L1 and L2 classrooms was between 3–5 years, this likely helped to reduce the potential for age-related bias. Despite this, future studies should aim to control for age, if feasible, to ensure more precise insights into the factors influencing ...
J Physiol Sci (2013) 63:87–94 DOI 10.1007/s12576-012-0238-3 ORIGINAL PAPER Inattentive and hyperactive preschool-age boys have lower sympathetic and higher parasympathetic activity Tzong-Shi Wang • Wei-Lieh Huang • Terry B. J. Kuo • Guo-She Lee • Cheryl C. H. Yang Received:...