Fundamental motor skills, screen-time, and physical activity in preschoolers
Webster EK, Martin CK, Staiano AE
Journal of sport and health science · 127 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Possibly industry funded
- Government
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Government
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Government
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Government
- NIDDK NIH HHS
- Government
- NIGMS NIH HHS
- Government
- NIMHD NIH HHS
- Grants
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54‐ GM104940); National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54 MD008602); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30 DK-072476)
Based on 6 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2018-11-24 · J Sport Health Sci · vol. 8 · issue 2 · pp. 114–121
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Cited
- 275 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 21.9× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 48 works
- Access
- Open access (free to publish) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Children's Physical and Motor Development · Child Development and Digital Technology · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- basic motor skills, screen time, physical activity, sedentary behavior, preschool children, toddlers, high-intensity exercise, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, manual dexterity, locomotor skills, sex differences, socioeconomic status, daycare centers, accelerometer-measured activity, TGMD-3, MABC-2, childhood obesity prevention, early childhood health promotion
3 authors
From US
- Elizabeth Kipling WebsterLouisiana State University
- Corby K. MartinPennington Biomedical Research Center; Louisiana State University
- Amanda E. Staiano · correspondingPennington Biomedical Research Center; Louisiana State University
Abstract
Purpose
To examine the associations among preschoolers fundamental motor skills, screen-time, physical activity (PA), and sedentary behavior (SB).
Methods
Children ages 3-4years were enrolled in a prospective observational trial of PA. Trained assessors conducted the Test of Gross Motor Development-3rdedition (TGMD-3), and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2nd edition, and parent-reported child screen-time and sociodemographic information. Children wore an accelerometer for 7days to examine SB and total PA (TPA). TPA was further characterized as moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) or vigorous PA (VPA). Mixed linear models were calculated, controlling for age (for TGMD-3), sex, household income, and accelerometer wear time (for accelerometry models), with childcare center as a random effect. The primary analysis reported on the cross-sectional baseline data of 126 children with complete fundamental motor skill and screen-time data; a subanalysis included 88 children with complete accelerometry data.
Results
Children were 3.4 ± 0.5years of age (54% girls; 46% white, 42% African American, 12% other). A total of 48% lived in households at or below the federal poverty level. Children engaged in 5.1 ± 3.6h/day of screen-time. Children's screen-time was inversely related to the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2nd edition, manual dexterity skills percentile (β (SE) = -1.7 (0.8), p = 0.049). In the accelerometry subsample, children engaged in 5.9 ± 0.9h/day of TPA of which 1.7 ± 0.6h/day was MVPA. Boys engaged in more MVPA and VPA and less SB compared with girls (all p p = 0.017) and locomotor score (β (SE) = 0.7 (0.3), p = 0.018) were associated with more VPA but not with TPA or MVPA. Screen-time and television in the bedroom were not related to SB, TPA, MVPA, or VPA.
Conclusion
Children's motor skills were positively related to VPA but inversely related to screen-time. Further inquiry into the implications of high exposure to screen-time in young children is needed.
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