Changes in common activities of 3rd through 10th graders: the CHIC Study

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Aenderungen der alltaeglichen koerperlichen Aktivitaet vom dritten bis zum zehnten Schuljahr: die CHIC Studie
Autor:Bradley, C.B.; McMurray, R.G.; Harrell, J.S.; Deng, S.
Erschienen in:Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Veröffentlicht:32 (2000), 12, S. 2071-2078, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0195-9131, 1530-0315
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Erfassungsnummer:PU199912500366
Quelle:BISp

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Purpose: This study was a longitudinal examination of the change in both the activities done and the intensity of those activities from childhood to adolescence. Methods: Common activities were assessed by questionnaire initially on 656 subjects from 21 elementary schools; 50.5% were female, 83.4% were Caucasian, 20.6% African-American, and 6.0% were other races. Results: Girls more often reported sedentary activities overall. Weighted least squares analyses showed boys consistently reported more vigorous activities than girls (P<0.0008). African-American girls reported fewer vigorous activities than Caucasian or other race girls (P=0.027). Sedentary activities were more frequently reported with increasing age (chi-square P<0.001). The youngest African-American and Caucasian boys reported similar activity patterns. However, boys from other races reported more intense activities until sixth and seventh grades when African-American boys began reporting more sedentary activities than Caucasians or other races (P=0.004). During sixth-eighth grades, Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) models show that girls with more advanced pubertal status reported more sedentary activities than girls who were less developed (P<0.0001). For high school girls, race was a marginally significant predictor (P=0.05) of activity status. Neither race nor pubertal status were significant factors in activities chosen by middle school boys. However, for male high school students, Caucasians were more likely than African-Americans to report vigorous activities (P=0.005). Conclusions: Variation in activities by race within gender suggests that establishing activity patterns in youth may be race-specific as well as gender-specific and must be accounted for in designing physical activity interventions. Also, pubertal maturation is a factor in activity choices in middle school girls. Verf.-Referat