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Few Canadian children and youth were meeting the 24-hour movement behaviour guidelines 6-months into the COVID-19 pandemic : Follow-up from a national study Moore, Sarah A.; Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-; Rhodes, Ryan E.; Vanderloo, Leigh M.; Ferguson, Leah J.; Guerrero, Michelle D.; Brussoni, Mariana; Mitra, Raktim; O'Reilly, Norm; Spence, John C.; et al.

Abstract

Daily life has changed for families due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this repeated cross-sectional study was to describe movement behaviours in Canadian children and youth 6 months into the pandemic (T2; October 2020) compared with the start of the pandemic (T1, April 2020). An online survey was distributed to parents (N = 1568) of children and/or youth (5–17 years; 58% girls) in October 2020. The survey assessed changes in movement behaviours (physical activity and play, sedentary behaviours, and sleep) from before the pandemic to October 2020 (T2). We compared these data with spring data (T1; April 2020; Moore et al. 2020; Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act, 17:85) collected using identical methodology (N = 1472; 54% girls). We report correlations between movement behaviours and relevant parental factors and provide word frequency distributions for open-ended responses. During the second wave, 4.5% of children (4.6% girls; 4.3% boys) and 1.9% of youth (1.3% girls, 2.4% boys) met the movement guidelines (3.1% overall). Whereas, during the first wave, 4.8% (2.8% girls, 6.5% boys) of children and 0.6% (0.8% girls, 0.5% boys) of youth were meeting combined guidelines (2.6% overall). Parental support was correlated with their child’s movement behaviours (T1 and T2). Our study demonstrates the ongoing challenges for children and youth to engage in healthy movement during the pandemic. Novelty: Our large-scale national study demonstrates that children and youth were not meeting the 24-hour movement guidelines during the second wave of the pandemic. Our findings illustrate the need to protect children and youth from the collateral consequences of the pandemic.

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Title
Few Canadian children and youth were meeting the 24-hour movement behaviour guidelines 6-months into the COVID-19 pandemic : Follow-up from a national study
Creator
Moore, Sarah A.; Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-; Rhodes, Ryan E.; Vanderloo, Leigh M.; Ferguson, Leah J.; Guerrero, Michelle D.; Brussoni, Mariana; Mitra, Raktim; O'Reilly, Norm; Spence, John C.; Chulak-Bozzer, Tala; Tremblay, Mark S.
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit; Children's Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.). Research Institute
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Date Issued
2021
Description
Daily life has changed for families due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this repeated cross-sectional study was to describe movement behaviours in Canadian children and youth 6 months into the pandemic (T2; October 2020) compared with the start of the pandemic (T1, April 2020). An online survey was distributed to parents (N = 1568) of children and/or youth (5–17 years; 58% girls) in October 2020. The survey assessed changes in movement behaviours (physical activity and play, sedentary behaviours, and sleep) from before the pandemic to October 2020 (T2). We compared these data with spring data (T1; April 2020; Moore et al. 2020; Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act, 17:85) collected using identical methodology (N = 1472; 54% girls). We report correlations between movement behaviours and relevant parental factors and provide word frequency distributions for open-ended responses. During the second wave, 4.5% of children (4.6% girls; 4.3% boys) and 1.9% of youth (1.3% girls, 2.4% boys) met the movement guidelines (3.1% overall). Whereas, during the first wave, 4.8% (2.8% girls, 6.5% boys) of children and 0.6% (0.8% girls, 0.5% boys) of youth were meeting combined guidelines (2.6% overall). Parental support was correlated with their child’s movement behaviours (T1 and T2). Our study demonstrates the ongoing challenges for children and youth to engage in healthy movement during the pandemic. Novelty: Our large-scale national study demonstrates that children and youth were not meeting the 24-hour movement guidelines during the second wave of the pandemic. Our findings illustrate the need to protect children and youth from the collateral consequences of the pandemic.
Subject
Children and youth (0-19); Outdoor/risky play
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-08-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0416580
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82262
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of; Pediatrics, Department of; Education, Faculty of; Kinesiology, School of; Non UBC
Citation
Sarah A. Moore, Guy Faulkner, Ryan E. Rhodes, Leigh M. Vanderloo, Leah J. Ferguson, Michelle D. Guerrero, Mariana Brussoni, Raktim Mitra, Norm O’Reilly, John C. Spence, Tala Chulak-Bozzer, and Mark S. Tremblay. Few Canadian children and youth were meeting the 24-hour movement behaviour guidelines 6-months into the COVID-19 pandemic: Follow-up from a national study. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. 46(10): 1225-1240.
Publisher DOI
10.1139/apnm-2021-0354
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Other
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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