Barriers to Physical Activity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Relationship to Physical Activity and Screen Time
Must A, Phillips S, Curtin C, Bandini LG
Journal of physical activity & health · 117 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Case-control study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Institutes of Health
- Government
- U.S. Public Health Service
- Government
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Government
- NICHD NIH HHS
- Government
- PHS HHS
- Grants
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5P30HD004147-40); U.S. Public Health Service (NIHDK46200); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P30 HD 004147); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21 HD048989)
Based on 5 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2015-04-01 · J Phys Act Health · vol. 12 · issue 4 · pp. 529–534
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Cited
- 230 citations · more than 97% of similar papers · 5.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 16 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy)
- Research areas
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Children's Physical and Motor Development · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, children, barriers to physical activity, screen time, physical activity participation, social exclusion, peer inclusion, parental supervision, community-based physical activity programs, inclusive education
- MeSH
- humans, exercise, prevalence, case-control studies, child behavior, health behavior, motor activity, child development, parents, residence characteristics, television, computers, child, child, preschool, friends, female, male, autism spectrum disorder, sedentary behavior
4 authors
From US
- Aviva MustTufts University
- Sarah M. Phillips
- Carol Curtin
- Linda G. Bandini
Abstract
Background
Individual, social, and community barriers to physical activity (PA) experienced by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make PA participation more difficult and may contribute to increased screen time.
Methods
We compared the prevalence of parent-reported barriers to PA among 58 typically developing (TD) children and 53 children with an ASD, 3 to 11 years, and assessed the association between barriers and PA participation and screen time among children with ASD.
Results
Parents of children with ASD reported significantly more barriers than parents of TD children. Based on parent-report, 60% of children with ASD required too much supervision compared with no TD children (P < .001). Parents of children with ASD were more likely to report that adults lack skills needed to include their child (58%), that their child has few friends (45%), and that other children exclude their child (23%). The number of parent-reported barriers to PA was inversely correlated with the hours spent in PA per year (r = -0.27, P = .05) and positively related to total screen time (r = .32, P < .03).
Conclusions
These findings underscore the need for community-based PA programs designed to meet the special requirements of this population and policies that compel schools and other government-supported organizations for inclusion and/or targeted programming.
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