PA children 7-12 Flashcards
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Common physical health outcomes studied in PA research in children. Strongest evidence?
BMI - also comp/ lean mass Bone health - particularly girls Cardiometabolic health (cholesterol, metabolic syndrome) Obesity Fitness, Motor control/ perf/ literacy Depression Asthma Injury Academic performance Grades Indicators e.g. Memory
Strongest for cardiometabolic health, mental health, fitness and bone health
Describe risk of bias (ROB) in PA in children literature
Valid measure of SB used
-cut points valid for children/adolescents
Covariates such as MVPA included in analysis
Representative sampling/ random selection
Adequate % with complete data?
TV viewing associated with?
More than 2 hr a day unfavorable:
- body comp
- decreased self esteem
- pro social behaviour
- academic achievement in school aged children
Limitation of TV viewing data
Mostly self report/ proxy report
What is cognition? 3 main areas
Basic mental process we use in everyday life
- Attention
-Memory (working and longer term)
-Executive fuinction - (cognitive control)
Also percepton from various senses
How can we measure cognition?
Event -stimulus ID -Response selection - Response programming Repsonse Cognitive processes jointly measured by reaction time
Behavioural measurements pratical of cognition
D2 test of attention
Phyiological studies e.g. EEG
Activity/ cognition higher after walking than sedentary
Findings from a systematic review of PA/SB and cognitive function, academic achievement and limitations
Fitness, Single bouts of PA, particip[ation in an intervention benefit cognitive function
Depends on constructs measured
Caution as little experimental evidence
Why might there be cognitive benefits with PA/SB?
Not much explaination why?
Physiological mech
INCREASED BF and perfusion - MRI etc
Socialsation in sport - decisions etc.
Exposure - PA, sport, fitness (hard to unpick independent relationships)
Combined impact cognitive, pyscho-socail (ability to work in groups, support etc) and improved school engagement leading to improved education achievement.
Mixed evidence for each.
Another review, CDC, relationship between school-based PA (including PE) and academic performance? Backed up by later evidence?
PE, recess, classroom and extracurricular PA • Of all the associaXons examined, 50.5% were posi;ve, 48% not significant, and 1.5% were negative.
Second review by Singh
Strong evidence of a significant positive relationship between PA and academic performance later. Mostly from observational studies - more PA is related to improved academic from high quality evidence.
How can we measure academic achievement?
Standardised tests vs subjective grades
Can active breaks/ lessons benefit academic perf? CDC
Active breaks/ lessons benefit 8/9 studies
Variation in physically active lesson implementation/ idea behind them
Integration of movement into teaching of academic content
Longer duration
Across the curriculum
Why do PA/Sb and cognitive function outcomes vary?
depends on constructs studies
Single bouts vs daily PA on cognition?
Single bouts can benefit cog function in children, daily PA and cognition is equivocal (ambiguous)
Longer term active lesson evidence?
After 2 years - 4 months learning gains in stardised test scores from maths and spelling PAL (x3 a week)
Associations between SB/PA and GCSEs in the UK?
Objective PA and Self reported sed behaviour e.g. Screen and non screen activities and GCSE results from national records. Prospective 845 adolescents.
1 hr screen time at 14.5y associated with 2 fewer GCSE grades
Still assoc after adjustment for PA and other SB
Inverse u shaped relationship between non screen sedentary behaviour and academic perf with association peaking at 4h/day
Method of a systematic review
Keywords
Search databases
Remove duplicates
Read all abstracts/ papers
Common mental health outcomes/ functioning outcomes in PA research
Anxiety Mental well-being Depression Cognitive functioning Educational performance i.e. Academic achievement
Aims of Cliff et al 2016
Is objectively measure total SB assoc with adverse health/development outcomes
Patterns of SB assoc ^?
Are associations independent of MVPA?
What moderators of the association e.g. Age group or risk of bias?
Reults of Cliff et al 2016
No association with Adiposity (despite 11 with sig pos association)
No association with Cardio-metabolic outcomes (8/29 at keast ibe sig outcome)
Stat sig meta analysis between sedentary time and 5 studies with glucose/insulin. Weak positive association (r=0.07).
ROB and MVPA were sig moderators however
Publication bias
No association with health related fitness
Inconsistent/uncertain association with bone and musculoskeletal outcomes
ROB in all studies regarding psychosocial outcomes
No association (inconsistent/uncertain for 1/4 which was low ROB)
Inconsistent/ uncertain gross motor function - few studies (3)
Inconsitent/ uncertain for cognitive outcomes - few studies (3)
Cliff et al 2016 comment on strength of association between ST and health and development?
Limited evidence that total ST is associated with health and development in children and yound people, particularly when accounting for ROB and MVPA
Limitations in literature highlighted by Cliff et al 2016
However small number of subdies that adjusted for MVPA, bone and MSK, psychosocial development, gross motor skills and cognitiive outcomes.
Small number of studies that examines associations for patterns of ST
Conflicting findings to Cliff et al 2016
Screen based SB time studies
Evidence inadults which indicated overall ST and patterns are adversely associated with health outcomes