BMI Indicators in Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/studiasportiva/article/view/11486" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/studiasportiva/article/view/11486</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/StS2019-1-9" target="_blank" >10.5817/StS2019-1-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

BMI Indicators in Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Original language description

Currently, obesity in people with intellectual disabilities, whose daily lives are to a certain degree affected by their impairment, is increasingly becoming the focal point of attention. However, there is a lack of scientific data for children with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this research is to determine whether children with intellectual disabilities are prone to obesity, whether obesity is gender- and age-specific, what is the distribution of intellectual disabilities in boys and girls and whether any level of intellectual disability shows a higher proclivity to obesity. The method employed was comparative and qualitative research approached deductively. For the collection of BMI indicators, InBody analyser was used to measure the data of 49 children attending two special needs primary schools. The findings of the research show that the BMI values of more than a half of children with intellectual disabilities in all assessed groups is within norm. Boys are estimated to have a lower BMI in middle adolescence than in early adolescence and school age. Girls are highly likely to have a higher BMI in late adolescence than in middle and early adolescence. In boys, obesity is associated with early adolescence and mild to moderate level of intellectual disability, whereas in girls with middle adolescence and mild level of intellectual disability.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Studia Sportiva

ISSN

1802-7679

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

85-97

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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