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Playability of school-environments and after-school physical activity among 8-11 year-old children: specificity of time and place.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
July 2016
Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University (Medical Center+), NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Background: Physical Activity (PA) occurs in several behavioral domains (e.g., sports, active transport), and is affected by distinct environmental factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModerators of the longitudinal relationship between the perceived physical environment and outside play in children: the KOALA birth cohort study.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
December 2014
Maastricht University (Medical Center+), CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Epidemiology, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Objectives: Promoting unstructured outside play is a promising vehicle to increase children's physical activity (PA). This study investigates if factors of the social environment moderate the relationship between the perceived physical environment and outside play.
Study Design: 1875 parents from the KOALA Birth Cohort Study reported on their child's outside play around age five years, and 1516 parents around age seven years.
A longitudinal study of children's outside play using family environment and perceived physical environment as predictors.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
June 2014
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, P,O, Box 2040, 3000 Rotterdam, CA, The Netherlands.
Background: A natural and cheap way of increasing children's physical activity is stimulating unstructured outside play.
Purpose: This study examined whether characteristics of the family and perceived physical environment were associated with the duration of children's outside play.
Methods: Parents participating in the "Be Active, Eat Right" cluster RCT control group (N = 2007) provided information on potential predictors of outside play (i.