Probably the most active population in the world: accelerometer measurements of 72 school-children in Greenland
ABSTRACTPhysical activity is the most important lifestyle factor to contribute to a healthy early life. International recommendations are that children should be vigorously physically active for at least 1 h per day, and in Greenland, authorities have claimed a goal of being the world’s most active...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:bd9b3e165e454d14a5f681d84df66bec 2024-01-21T10:03:59+01:00 Probably the most active population in the world: accelerometer measurements of 72 school-children in Greenland Christina Schnohr Trine Fuhr-Nielsen Sarah O. Sørensen Birgit Niclasen Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2289283 https://doaj.org/article/bd9b3e165e454d14a5f681d84df66bec EN eng Taylor & Francis Group https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22423982.2023.2289283 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-3982 doi:10.1080/22423982.2023.2289283 2242-3982 https://doaj.org/article/bd9b3e165e454d14a5f681d84df66bec International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 82, Iss 1 (2023) Physical activity school-children measurement properties questionnaire data accelerometer measures Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2289283 2023-12-24T01:42:47Z ABSTRACTPhysical activity is the most important lifestyle factor to contribute to a healthy early life. International recommendations are that children should be vigorously physically active for at least 1 h per day, and in Greenland, authorities have claimed a goal of being the world’s most active population. Since 1994, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) has measured physical activity among school-children in Greenland by questionnaire data, but the measurement properties of self-reported data in comparison to more objectively measured accelerometer data are unknown. The present paper describes the first study using clinical measures of physical activity among Greenlandic youth. Seventy-two school-children (56% girls) with a mean age of 12 years (range 25%; 75% was 11.5; 12.25) wore accelerometers for seven consecutive days, and data produced significant and informative findings for both practice and future research. Fifty-two per cent of the school-children met the international recommendations of being physically active >1 h per day, when measured by accelerometers, but self-reported data reported a prevalence of 10% meeting the recommendations. A majority of this sample of Greenlandic school-children lives up to international recommendations, which indicates that the goal of being the world’s most active population is within reach. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health Greenland greenlandic International Journal of Circumpolar Health Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Greenland International Journal of Circumpolar Health 82 1 |
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ABSTRACTPhysical activity is the most important lifestyle factor to contribute to a healthy early life. International recommendations are that children should be vigorously physically active for at least 1 h per day, and in Greenland, authorities have claimed a goal of being the world’s most active population. Since 1994, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) has measured physical activity among school-children in Greenland by questionnaire data, but the measurement properties of self-reported data in comparison to more objectively measured accelerometer data are unknown. The present paper describes the first study using clinical measures of physical activity among Greenlandic youth. Seventy-two school-children (56% girls) with a mean age of 12 years (range 25%; 75% was 11.5; 12.25) wore accelerometers for seven consecutive days, and data produced significant and informative findings for both practice and future research. Fifty-two per cent of the school-children met the international recommendations of being physically active >1 h per day, when measured by accelerometers, but self-reported data reported a prevalence of 10% meeting the recommendations. A majority of this sample of Greenlandic school-children lives up to international recommendations, which indicates that the goal of being the world’s most active population is within reach. |
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Christina Schnohr Trine Fuhr-Nielsen Sarah O. Sørensen Birgit Niclasen Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen |
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Christina Schnohr Trine Fuhr-Nielsen Sarah O. Sørensen Birgit Niclasen Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen |
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Probably the most active population in the world: accelerometer measurements of 72 school-children in Greenland |
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