Motor performance and nutritional status of schoolchildren with and without developmental coordination disorder . DOI:10.5007/1980-0037.2011v13n1p59
Autor: | Thaís Silva Beltrame; Talita Barbosa Miranda; Fernando Luiz Cardoso |
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Sprache: | Englisch; Portugiesisch |
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2011 |
Quelle: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
Online Zugang: |
http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/rbcdh/article/view/13650/pdf_64 https://doaj.org/toc/1415-8426 https://doaj.org/toc/1980-0037 1415-8426 1980-0037 https://doaj.org/article/c37f82cf5d774cacaeceb25618d30be3 https://doaj.org/article/c37f82cf5d774cacaeceb25618d30be3 |
Erfassungsnummer: | ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c37f82cf5d774cacaeceb25618d30be3 |
Zusammenfassung
The objective of this study was to investigate the motor performance and nutritional status of schoolchildren aged 7 to 10 years with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). A total of 380 children from public schools in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, participated in the study. The Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2) was used for the identification of motor difficulties. Weight and height were measured and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated for the evaluation of nutritional status. The results showed that 6.1% (n=23) of the students presented signs of DCD, including 18 boys and 5 girls. In the group with DCD, a significant difference was observed between manual dexterity skills and aiming/catching skills and between aiming/catching skills and balance. Regarding nutritional status, 85.5% of all students were eutrophic and 12.9% were obese. In the group with DCD, 91.3% of the students were eutrophic and 8.7% were obese. There was no association between nutritional status and motor performance in the two groups, indicating that nutritional status did not influence motor performance in the schoolchildren studied.