A systematic review of tools designed for teacher proxy-report of children’s physical literacy or constituting elements
Background: Physical literacy (PL) in childhood is essential for a healthy active lifestyle, with teachers playing a critical role in guiding its development. Teachers can assist children to acquire the…
Sedentary behavior and public health
Integrating the evidence and identifying potential solutions
The authors present relevant elements of the evidence base and examples of interventions that can inform public health strategies, being mindful that the evidence and its limitations, strengths, and potential…
Why have youth physical activity trends flatlined in the last decade?
Opinion piece on “Global trends in insufficient physical activity among adolescents: a pooled analysis of 298 population-based surveys with 1.6 million participants” by Guthold et al.
Globally, physical inactivity rates in school-going adolescents are alarming. Using realist and co-creation methodologies to better understand and develop multisectoral strategies and programs and efforts to promote effective uptake of…
More active pre-school children have better motor competence at school starting age
An observational cohort study
Almost half of young children do not achieve minimum recommendations of 60 daily minutes in physical activity. Physical activity is potentially an important determinant of the development of motor competence…
Interventions to increase physical activity in children 0-5 years old
A systematic review, meta-analysis and realist synthesis
The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity (PA) in 0–5 year olds and to determine what works, for whom, in what…
Implementation and scale up of population physical activity interventions for clinical and community settings
The PRACTIS guide
Heel weinig door wetenschappers ontwikkelde beweeginterventies worden daadwerkelijk met succes in de praktijk uitgevoerd en verspreid. De auteurs van dit artikel hebben de PRACTIS (PRACTical planning for Implemention and Scale-up)…
Interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour in 0–5-year-olds
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Aim or objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of behavioural interventions that report sedentary behaviour outcomes during early childhood.
Joint associations of multiple leisure-time sedentary behaviours and physical activity with obesity in Australian adults
Television viewing and physical inactivity are independently associated with risk of obesity. However, how the combination of multiple leisure-time sedentary behaviours (LTSB) and physical activity (LTPA) may contribute to the…
Sedentary behaviour and health
Mapping environmental and social contexts to underpin chronic disease prevention
The time that children and adults spend sedentary -put simply, doing too much sitting as distinct from doing too little physical activity -has recently been proposed as a population-wide, ubiquitous…
Breaks in sedentary time
Beneficial associations with metabolic risk
This study provides evidence of the importance of avoiding prolonged uninterrupted periods of sedentary (primarily sitting) time. These findings suggest new public health recommendations regarding breaking up sedentary time that…