Relationships between duration of various physical activities and physical activity level in children
10.7600/jspfsm.62.391
- VernacularTitle:子どもの各種身体活動従事時間と身体活動レベルとの関係
- Author:
Yoshitake Oshima
;
Satoshi Nakae
;
Yosuke Yamada
;
Misaka Kimura
;
Haruo Ozawa
;
Kazuhiro Suzuki
;
Kazuhumi Hirakawa
;
Kojiro Ishii
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
children;
running activity;
PAL;
DLW;
accelerometer
- From:Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
2013;62(5):391-397
- CountryJapan
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between patterns of daily physical activities measured by accelerometer and physical activity level (PAL) in children. Firstly, activity intensities during incremental exercise were measured using a tri-axial accelerometer (HJA-350IT) in twenty one children aged 10.6 ± 0.9 years. As a result of receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis, the cut-off value for discrimination between walking and running activity was set at 7.2 METs of HJA-350IT. Secondly, total energy expenditure (TEE) in daily life was measured by doubly labeled water method, and durations of lifestyle, walking, and running activities were measured by the accelerometer in 6th grade elementary school children (11 boys and 10 girls). TEE and physical activity level (PAL) were 2,021 ± 343 kcal/day and 1.56 ± 0.17, respectively. The average durations of lifestyle, walking and running activities were 188 ± 30 min/day (50.6 ± 6.0 %), 171±28 min/day (45.9 ± 5.0 %) and 13.3 ± 7.6 min/day (3.5 ± 1.8 %), respectively. The proportion of the duration of running activity was positively correlated with PAL (r = 0.615, p < 0.01), and the proportion of the duration of lifestyle activity was negatively correlated with PAL (r = -0.439, p < 0.05). There was no relationship between the proportion of the duration of walking activity and PAL (r = 0.300, n.s.). These results suggest that running activity is important to increase PAL more than ever in primary school children.
