Short-term tracking of performance and health-related physical fitness in girls : the Healthy Growth in Cariri Study
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Kurzzeiterfassung von Leistungsfähigkeit und gesundheitsbezogener körperlicher Fitness bei jungen Frauen : die Healthy Growth in Cariri-Studie |
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Autor: | Pereira Da Silva, Simonete; Beunen, Gaston; Prista, Antonio; Ribeiro Maia, José António |
Erschienen in: | Journal of sports sciences |
Veröffentlicht: | 31 (2013), 1, S. 104-113, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0264-0414, 1466-447X |
DOI: | 10.1080/02640414.2012.723817 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201403001542 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to track the performance and health-related physical fitness of girls from Brazil’s Cariri region. In the ‘‘Healthy Growth in Cariri Study’’, 294 girls from public and private schools were divided into four age cohorts – 8, 10, 12, and 14 years – and followed for three consecutive years, with an assessment every 6 months. Shuttle run, hand grip, standing long jump, trunk lift, curl-up, 12-min run, and fatness were used to rate physical fitness performance and health-related components on each of six occasions. Tracking was done in a stepwise manner, using auto-correlation, by modelling the individual history of change in performance of each girl, and using Foulkes and Davies’ g-coefficient. SPSS 18.0 and TIMEPATH were used for data analysis. Auto-correlations evidenced low-to-moderate values in almost all components of performance and health-related physical fitness. Intra-individual tracking analysis showed large variation in all fitness components as a result of a wide spread in individual history of change in fitness performance. Population estimates of y were low in all tests. Our results show low-to-moderate tracking of physical fitness components of girls. A wide range of intra-individual and inter-variability in fitness development was observed. Verf.-Referat