Gender differences in physical activity and sedentary behavior of Japanese primary school children during school cleaning time, morning recess and lunch recess
Gender differences in physical activity and sedentary behavior of Japanese primary school children during school cleaning time, morning recess and lunch recess
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DOI:
10.1186/s12889-019-7256-5
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发表时间:
2019-07-23
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Tanaka, Shigeho
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作者:
Tanaka, Chiaki;Tanaka, Maki;Tanaka, Shigeho
BackgroundThe school environment provides crucial opportunities for children to engage in health-promoting physical activity (PA). Japanese children clean their schools and have recess time every school day. The primary aim of the study is to describe the levels of physical activity during school cleaning and recess time while comparing it between genders.MethodsPA and sedentary behavior (SB) of 230 boys and 252 girls aged 6-12years-old from 14 public primary schools were assessed for 7 consecutive days with a triaxial accelerometer. Minutes of SB, and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) as a percentage in each of school cleaning time (15min/day: 58% of the 14 schools or 20min/day), morning recess time (15min/day: 6% or 20min/day) or lunch recess time (15min/day: 29%, 20min/day: 47% or 25min/day) were evaluated. A one-way analysis of variance or Student's t test was used to examine differences in %PAs and %SB between school cleaning time and morning and lunch recess time, and between genders.ResultsIn a school day, the percentage of total daily MVPA during school cleaning time, morning recess and lunch recess time was 19.46.8% (15.2 +/- 5.3min/day) for boys and 16.9 +/- 5.8% (10.5 +/- 4.3min/day) for girls. For boys, the proportions of MVPA in morning and lunch recesses and SB during the morning recess were significantly higher than during school cleaning time (p