Examining Influences on Boy’s and Girls’ Physical Activity Patterns: The A-CLASS Project
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Understanding children’s physical activity (PA) patterns and the factors that may influence PA are important for developing interventions within this population. One hundred and ten children aged 9–10 years from 8 schools had their PA patterns assessed over 7 days. Physiological and self-report data were also collected. Multilevel analyses revealed that cardiorespiratory fitness was a consistent, significant and positive predictor of weekday and weekend PA, while the availability of home sedentary activities was a significant but negative predictor of PA. Since a range of variables were associated with PA levels, intervention developers should be cognizant of variables that may influence children’s activity.
Ridgers, Graves, Foweather, and Stratton are with the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK, and the REACH (Research into Exercise, Activity, and Children’s Health) Group, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK.
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