Children’s physical activity levels in a sports-oriented summer day camp
| Autor: | Steven L. Gortmaker, Elizabeth Y. Barnett, Paul M. Ridker, Jessica L. Barrett, Cassandra A. Okechukwu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Physical activity 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Summer camp Educación Física y Deportiva 030212 general & internal medicine lcsh:Sports medicine Child Exercise Multivariable linear regression business.industry Public health Repeated measures design Test (assessment) Accelerometer Chronic disease Health promotion Tennis business lcsh:RC1200-1245 human activities Demography |
| Zdroj: | RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 430-442 (2018) |
| DOI: | 10.14198/jhse.2018.132.13 |
| Popis: | Physical activity engagement during childhood helps create lifelong patterns of health and fitness. Summer camps are an important domain of influence for health promotion, with over 14 million American children attending annually. No known studies have evaluated the impact of sports-focused camps on activity levels. We test the hypothesis that children attending a sports camp (STEC) spend more time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) compared to children attending general day camps. A repeated measures design used waist-worn accelerometers to measure MVPA and vigorous physical activity (VPA) among children at a sports camp in Dorchester, Massachusetts (n = 40). We compared these data with data from a similar study at five Boston-area non-sports-focused summer day camps (BSC) (n = 142), resulting in 764 total person-days analyzed. Multivariable linear regression models estimated differences in percent of accelerometer-monitored time spent in physical activity, adjusting for potential confounders and clustering of observations. STEC children spent a higher percentage of time in MVPA and VPA compared to BSC children (MVPA: 11.4%, p = .005; VPA: 2.4%, p = .023). These findings support the hypothesis that sports-focused camps can provide children with significantly more activity than general day camps. STEC children also spend a higher percent of time in MVPA than do children in a school-day national sample (NHANES). This is the first study to document that a sports-oriented camp generates more physical activity compared to a general summer camp. Our findings are relevant for public health efforts to promote physical activity and prevent chronic disease. |
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