Effectiveness Of Physical Activity Intervention For Preschool Children In The Czech Republic : An Intervention Study

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effectiveness Of Physical Activity Intervention For Preschool Children In The Czech Republic : An Intervention Study

Original language description

OBJECTIVES: The assessment of preschool children motor skills has been researched increasingly recently due to recognition of the fact that motor impairment relates to cognitive, social and physical activity difficulties. Less physically active children have poorer motor skill performance than more active children and this could influence their sport involvement behaviour in the future. In addition the Czech Republic has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults and the fourteenth highest prevalence of overweight among adolescent in the European Union (WHO, 2013). Effort to enhance young children motor skills may lead to increased physical activity level, enjoyment of sport activities and prevent obesity. This study assesses the effectiveness of movement intervention on gross and fine motor skill performance, weight status and sport – related behaviour in preschool children in the Czech Republic. Assessment tool used in this study could also help us with identification of children with delayed motor development, overweight and children with high predisposition to sport activities. METHOD: Movement intervention programme for pre-schoolers will be implemented. This programme was developed to enhance motor skills performance and provide opportunities to increase physical activity in the preschool setting. The programme lasts 6 months, one hour once a week (24 lessons in total). Lessons comprise multiple activities mainly focused on gross motor skills categories (bilateral coordination, balance, running speed agility, strength). To test the effectiveness of the programme, we will conduct intervention study targeting 3 – 5 years old children. Measurements include sociodemographic variables (birth date, gender, movement activities in week atc.), anthropometric measures (height, weight, BMI) and Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT- 2; Bruininks, 2005). DATA COLLECTION: Data for pilot study will be collected in one kindergarten in Brno, the Czech Republic. Pre-intervention measures will be collected a week before the programme begins and the postintervention measures will be collected immediately after it ends. RESULTS: We expect significant changes in gross motor skills in the treatment group compared with the control group. We do not expect significant changes in fine motor skills, but we believe that there will be some qualitative changes in fine motor skills performance. We also expect that more active children will achieve better motor skills performance than less active children. We do not expect significant reductions on BMI scores because it is multifaceted issue, but we believe that BMI could influence gross motor skills performance. CONCLUSION: We believe that this study could contribute to the current scientific knowledge on the given topic as there is a very limited number of studies publihed on physical activity intervention, especially in the Czech Republic. We would like to emphasize importance of movement activities in preschool children as an essential factor to physically active lifestyle.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů