THE EFFECTS OF A SCHOOL BAG LOAD CARRIAGE ON GAIT KINEMATICS IN CHILDREN: A SCHOOL-BASED STUDY

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14510%2F24%3A00144022" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14510/24:00144022 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://ojs.srce.hr/kinesiology/article/view/30177" target="_blank" >https://ojs.srce.hr/kinesiology/article/view/30177</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26582/k.56.2.1" target="_blank" >10.26582/k.56.2.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

THE EFFECTS OF A SCHOOL BAG LOAD CARRIAGE ON GAIT KINEMATICS IN CHILDREN: A SCHOOL-BASED STUDY

Original language description

The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of carrying a school bag on spatiotemporal gait parameters in a sample of primary school children. Two-hundred and twenty-one children (124 girls and 97 boys), aged 9.5 +/- 2.1 years, were randomly selected from three primary schools in the city of Brno, Czech Republic. Gait analysis without and with the school bag load carriage was performed using the Zebris pressure platform. The software generated the data for spatial (foot rotation, step length, stride length and step width) and temporal (step time, stride time, cadence and gait speed) gait parameters. The mean school bag weight was 4.86 +/- 1.21 kg. Repeated measures ANCOVA adjusted for sex and age showed that carrying a school bag resulted in a higher external left foot (F-1,F-220=8.390, p&lt;.001) and right foot (F-1,F-220=8.791, p&lt;.001) rotation, narrow step width (F-1,F-220=6.113, p&lt;.001), longer left foot (F-1,F-220=5.556, p=.011) and right foot (F-1,F-220=4.508, p=.021) step time, longer stride time (F-1,F-220=3.773, p=.035), less cadence (F-1,F-220=3.773, p=0.038) and slower gait speed (F-1,F-220=4.131, p=.029). Carrying a school bag weight may change gait characteristics in schoolgoing children, especially in temporal parameters.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Kinesiology

ISSN

1331-1441

e-ISSN

1848-638X

Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

189-197

UT code for WoS article

001460076400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85199057720