Physical activity during recess and physical education class in children

dc.contributor.authorTully, Robyn E.
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMacNeil, Brian (Medical Rehabilitation) Dean, Heather (Pediatrics, Medicine)en
dc.contributor.supervisorKriellaars, Dean (Medical Rehabilitation)en
dc.date.accessioned2008-01-18T15:04:17Z
dc.date.available2008-01-18T15:04:17Z
dc.date.issued2008-01-18T15:04:17Z
dc.degree.disciplineMedical Rehabilitationen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.abstractChildren do not acquire adequate amounts of physical activity (PA), there for it is important to identify opportunities to increase PA. The purpose of this thesis is to characterize PA during the school day, and to determine the effectiveness of a short term recess PA intervention. Children from two schools (N=75, ages 7-10) wore pedometers for five days. A subset of subjects (N=17) also wore accelerometers. Step counts were recorded 9-10 times/day to obtain PA information for six daily periods. Males were more active than females (P<0.001, 12.331, 9439 step/day respectively). Recess contributes 30.6% of daily step counts, while PE contributes 17.2%. Sex, period duration, weather and location of PA period all were factors for PA. The intervention was effective in increasing PA by a mean 985 (±1808) steps/day (P<0.05). Recess is window of opportunity in which to improve on PA and pedometer interventions are effective in this area.en
dc.description.noteFebruary 2008en
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/2995
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectschoolen
dc.subjectpedometryen
dc.titlePhysical activity during recess and physical education class in childrenen
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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