Correlation between relative schoolbag weight and gender and age differences of the schoolchildren in the primary school

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://hrcak.srce.hr/237529" target="_blank" >https://hrcak.srce.hr/237529</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Correlation between relative schoolbag weight and gender and age differences of the schoolchildren in the primary school

Original language description

This study investigated relative schoolbag weight and the correlation between relative schoolbag weight and gender and age differences of the schoolchildren in nine grades of primary schools in Brno, Czech Republic. Measurements of children’s anthropometry and schoolbag weight were taken in five different schools. In total 584 school children, 44,35 % girls (N = 259) and 55,65 % boys (N = 325), mean age 9,67 (± 2,4) years and body weight 37,5 kg (± 13,4) took part in this study. Mean schoolbag weight was 4,93 kg (± 1,32) and it represented 14,0 % (± 0,5) of children’s body weight. By using a factorial ANOVA in statistical analysis and by setting the statistical significance at p &gt;= 0,05, the statistically significant difference between the relative schoolbag weight by ages of participants was noticed (p = 0,000). Schoolchildren in first four grades have statistically significant higher relative schoolbag weight than their older colleagues. On the other hand, there’s no statistically significant difference between the relative schoolbag weight and the gender (p = 0,240), but there is a statistically significant difference between the relative schoolbag weight and the interaction between gender and age (p = 0,006). This study showed that for schoolchildren in their early stage of growth, schoolbag load is bigger, and it represents a big risk factor during the very sensitive stage of their growth and development.

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

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

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

Hrvatski športskomedicinski vjesnik

ISSN

0354-0766

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

31-36

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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