Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 September 2018) | Viewed by 112279
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical activity; sedentary behaviour; measurement; disease risk
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Interests: qualitative research; psycho-social evaluation of elite sport and physical activity interventions for children and young people; natural play; public engagement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Physical activity is an important determinant of health that is associated with a range of physical and psychosocial benefits. Despite this, we know that many children and young people are inactive and spend a lot of time engaged in sedentary behaviours. Physical activity is a complex behaviour influenced by a range of factors. Furthermore, the accurate measurement of physical activity remains a major challenge to researchers in the discipline. The goal of this special edition is to provide a wide-reaching and contemporary snapshot of paediatric physical activity research. The issue will be aligned to aspects of the Behavioural Epidemiology Framework. Therefore, we are interested in articles covering topics such as the following:
- Advances in paediatric physical activity measurement
- Applications of physical activity measures for intervention research
- The use of creative methodologies within intervention design and evaluation
- Distribution of physical activity and sedentary behaviours
- Correlates of children and adolescents’ physical activity and/or sedentary behaviour
- The interplay between physical activity and/or sedentary behaviour and health in children
- Evaluations of interventions, which may include effectiveness and process evaluations
- New horizons in children’s physical activity, including policy development and commentaries
Dr. Lynne M. Boddy
Prof. Zoe Knowles
Dr. Pedro F. Saint-Maurice
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Children’s physical activity
- Children’s sedentary behaviour
- Behaviour change
- Health
- Measurement
- Epidemiology
- Accelerometers
- Self-reports
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