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J Intellect Dev Disabil
June 2024
Department of Human Movement Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Wellington, South Africa.
Background: Many adults with intellectual disabilities live a sedentary lifestyle, have low levels of functional fitness and are overweight. The purpose of this study was to determine whether an exercise intervention with activities which are simple, fun, accessible and adapted for socialising in a group would elicit significant improvements in various parameters associated with functional fitness for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Methods: Forty-two adults with intellectual disability (44.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci
July 2024
Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Noncommunicable diseases are universal and are being reported across the world, with many diseases being gradually reported in early age groups. Physical activity has been encouraged and advocated by all medical practitioners to prevent, arrest, and delay the onset and development of complications associated with noncommunicable diseases. The concept of "Ten Thousand Steps" in a day is predominantly a goal that people aim to attain either by walking or indulging themselves in some form of moderate physical activity.
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February 2025
Graduate Program in Decision Models and Health, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Paraíba, Brazil.
Aim: To map the ingredients of non-invasive interventions provided to young ambulant children with cerebral palsy.
Method: Articles were screened and each study's characteristics extracted. The intervention ingredients were described in terms of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System and linked to the 'F-words'.
Child Care Health Dev
September 2024
CanChild, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Background: Attitudes toward childhood disability have historically focused on biomedical efforts on 'fixing'. The introduction of WHO's ICF framework for health and Canadian researchers' 'F-words' (functioning, fitness, fun, friends, family and future) have significantly changed the field. To explore whether the F-words ideas influenced parents' perspectives on their child's abilities and rehabilitation goals, this qualitative pilot study introduced the F-words to Iranian parents with a child with a developmental disability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Sports Sci
June 2024
Department of Educational and Developmental Science, College of Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
A person-centred approach was used to examine whether children with various actual and perceived motor competence (AMC and PMC) profiles differ in (enjoyment of) physical fitness (PF). The strength of the relationship between AMC and PMC was also assessed through aligned assessment tools. A sample of 287 7-11-year-old children (47.
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