Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays

Objectives To investigate factors associated with movement behaviours among White British (WB) and South Asian (SA) children aged 6–8 years during school terms and holidays.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Three primary schools from the Bradford area, UK.Participants One hundred and sixty WB and SA ch...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Faisal, Mohammed Mohammed, Maria Horne, Liana Carmen Nagy, Paul Collings, Sally Barber
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Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08-01
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Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/8/e025071.full
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Mohammed Mohammed
Maria Horne
Liana Carmen Nagy
Paul Collings
Sally Barber
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Maria Horne
Liana Carmen Nagy
Paul Collings
Sally Barber
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description Objectives To investigate factors associated with movement behaviours among White British (WB) and South Asian (SA) children aged 6–8 years during school terms and holidays.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Three primary schools from the Bradford area, UK.Participants One hundred and sixty WB and SA children aged 6–8 years.Primary and secondary outcomes Sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) measured by accelerometry during summer, winter and spring and during school terms and school holidays. Data were analysed using multivariate mixed-effects multilevel modelling with robust SEs. Factors of interest were ethnicity, holiday/term, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), weight status, weekend/weekday and season.Results One hundred and eight children (67.5%) provided 1157 valid days of data. Fifty-nine per cent of children were WB (n=64) and 41% (n=44) were SA. Boys spent more time in MVPA (11 min/day, p=0.013) compared with girls and SA children spent more time in SB (39 min, p=0.017) compared with WB children in adjusted models. Children living in higher SES areas were more sedentary (43 min, p=0.006) than children living in low SES areas. Children were more active during summer (15 min MVPA, p<0.001; 27 LPA, p<0.001) and spring (15 min MVPA, p=0.005; 38 min LPA, p<0.001) and less sedentary (−42 min and −53 min, p<0.001) compared with winter. Less time (8 min, p=0.012) was spent in LPA during school terms compared with school holidays. Children spent more time in MVPA (5 min, p=0.036) during weekend compared with weekdays. Overweight and obese children spent more time in LPA (21 min, p=0.021) than normal-weight children.Conclusion The results of our study suggest that significant child level factors associated with movement behaviours are ethnicity, sex, weight-status and area SES. Significant temporal factors are weekends, school holidays and seasonality. Interventions to support health enhancing movement behaviours may need to be tailored around these factors.
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spelling doaj-art-e3536d73376c409b90cf48c9c5ee42d02024-11-26T16:30:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552019-08-019810.1136/bmjopen-2018-025071Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidaysMuhammad Faisal0Mohammed Mohammed1Maria Horne2Liana Carmen Nagy3Paul Collings4Sally Barber5Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK7 NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, West Bromwich, UK5 School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Leeds, UK1 Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford, UK3 Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UKBorn in Bradford, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UKObjectives To investigate factors associated with movement behaviours among White British (WB) and South Asian (SA) children aged 6–8 years during school terms and holidays.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Three primary schools from the Bradford area, UK.Participants One hundred and sixty WB and SA children aged 6–8 years.Primary and secondary outcomes Sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) measured by accelerometry during summer, winter and spring and during school terms and school holidays. Data were analysed using multivariate mixed-effects multilevel modelling with robust SEs. Factors of interest were ethnicity, holiday/term, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), weight status, weekend/weekday and season.Results One hundred and eight children (67.5%) provided 1157 valid days of data. Fifty-nine per cent of children were WB (n=64) and 41% (n=44) were SA. Boys spent more time in MVPA (11 min/day, p=0.013) compared with girls and SA children spent more time in SB (39 min, p=0.017) compared with WB children in adjusted models. Children living in higher SES areas were more sedentary (43 min, p=0.006) than children living in low SES areas. Children were more active during summer (15 min MVPA, p<0.001; 27 LPA, p<0.001) and spring (15 min MVPA, p=0.005; 38 min LPA, p<0.001) and less sedentary (−42 min and −53 min, p<0.001) compared with winter. Less time (8 min, p=0.012) was spent in LPA during school terms compared with school holidays. Children spent more time in MVPA (5 min, p=0.036) during weekend compared with weekdays. Overweight and obese children spent more time in LPA (21 min, p=0.021) than normal-weight children.Conclusion The results of our study suggest that significant child level factors associated with movement behaviours are ethnicity, sex, weight-status and area SES. Significant temporal factors are weekends, school holidays and seasonality. Interventions to support health enhancing movement behaviours may need to be tailored around these factors.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/8/e025071.full
spellingShingle Muhammad Faisal
Mohammed Mohammed
Maria Horne
Liana Carmen Nagy
Paul Collings
Sally Barber
Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
BMJ Open
title Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
title_full Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
title_fullStr Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
title_short Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6–8 years during school terms and school holidays
title_sort factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among white british and south asian children aged 6 8 years during school terms and school holidays
url https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/8/e025071.full
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