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SCHOOL-TIME MOVEMENT BEHAVIOURS AND FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS IN PRESCHOOLERS: AN ISOTEMPORAL REALLOCATION ANALYSIS

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posted on 2021-01-21, 23:18 authored by Clarice Martins, Cain Craig Truman Clark, Rafael Tassitano, Anastácio Souza FilhoAnastácio Souza Filho, Anelise Reis Gaya, Michael J Duncan

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BACKGROUND: Little is known on how relocations of time spent in different movement behaviours during pre-school hours could relate to preschooler’s fundamental movement skills (FMS), a key predictor of later physical activity (PA). Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether the school-time composition was associated with FMS; and to investigate predicted differences in FMS when a fixed duration of time was reallocated from one activity behaviour to another in preschool children. METHODS: A cross-sectional representative data of an intervention study with Brazilian low-income preschoolers. Two hundred and four preschoolers of both sexes (4.5±0.8 years-old; 101boys) provided 10 hours of school-time objectively assessed PA and sedentary behaviour (SB) data (Actigraph wGT3X), and FMS assessments (TGMD-2). Association of school-time composition of movement behaviuors with FMS and its reallocations during school-time was explored using compositional analysis in R (version 1.40-1), robCompositions (version 0.92-7), and lmtest (version 0.9-35) packages. RESULTS: The isotemporal reallocation showed that for manipulative skills, an increasing pattern was observed (0.14, 0.28, and 0.42-units) when reallocating 5, 10 and 15 minutes, respectively, from light PA to SB. CONCLUSIONS: The current study highlights that school-time composition is a significant predictor of FMS. Moreover, a modest increase in SB, at the expense of LPA, during the school-time may elicit a positive change in manipulative skills.

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The authors declare no conflitcs of interest

Corresponding author email

necothayna@gmail.com

Lead author country

  • Brazil

Human Participants

  • Yes

Ethics statement

All the Helsinki Declarations’ ethical aspects were followed (Association, 2013). The evaluation methods and procedures were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Health Science Center of Federal University of Local University (protocol n. 2.727.698), and by the Education Board of city.

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