There Is an Inverse Correlation between Basic Motor Skills and Overweight in Schoolchildren Aged 8 to 12
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Título: | There Is an Inverse Correlation between Basic Motor Skills and Overweight in Schoolchildren Aged 8 to 12 |
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Autor/es: | Vega Ramírez, Lilyan | Pérez-Cañaveras, Rosa M. | Juan Herrero, Joaquín de |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Innovation in Physical Education and Physical Activity and Sport (EDUCAPHYS) | Enfermería Clínica (EC) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Didáctica General y Didácticas Específicas | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería |
Palabras clave: | Primary school | Motor skills | Motor learning | Physical education |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Didáctica de la Expresión Corporal | Enfermería |
Fecha de publicación: | 18-dic-2021 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Vega-Ramirez L, Pérez-Cañaveras RM, De Juan Herrero J. There Is an Inverse Correlation between Basic Motor Skills and Overweight in Schoolchildren Aged 8 to 12. Children. 2021; 8(12):1198. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8121198 |
Resumen: | In the last three decades, childhood obesity has become a 21st century epidemic, a product of social development. The purpose of this study was to analyze the repercussions that overweight and obesity have for the basic motor skills of a group of children in primary school, as well as their interrelations. We analyzed a sample of 287 students from Spain, aged between 8 and 12 years. Anthropometric data were taken to determine their Body Mass Index (BMI). A scale of assessment of basic motor skills was used to evaluate their motor skills. The BMI data revealed that 11% of this sample was considered obese, and 26% was overweight. Children showed higher competence in locomotor skills than in object control and turn and rolling skills, for which motor competence levels were lower. Likewise, there was an inverse relationship between BMI and basic motor skills; children with obesity had the lowest levels of motor skills, and there was a significant difference regarding non-obese children (p ≤ 0.05). These results showed that overweight and obese children have lower basic motor skills, which can lead to the abandonment of physical activity and the preference for other activities that reinforce a sedentary lifestyle. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/120277 |
ISSN: | 2227-9067 |
DOI: | 10.3390/children8121198 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/children8121198 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - EDUCAPHYS - Artículos de Revistas INV - Enfermería Clínica - Artículos de Revistas |
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