Does sports club participation contribute to physical activity among children and adolescents? A comparison across six European countries
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494818786110" target="_blank" >10.1177/1403494818786110</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does sports club participation contribute to physical activity among children and adolescents? A comparison across six European countries
Original language description
public-health response. PA recommendations state that all children and adolescents should accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) daily and carry out vigorous PA (VPA) three times weekly. While participation in sports club activities is known to enhance the probability of reaching the recommended overall PA level, less is known about the contribution of sports club participation to VPA, and few cross-national comparisons have been carried out. The purpose of this paper is to study whether participation in sports club activities is associated with meeting the overall PA and VPA recommendations among children and adolescents across six European countries, namely Belgium (Flanders), Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ireland and Sweden. Methods: Analyses were carried out on existing self-reported national data sets using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. Results: Results indicate that approximately two-thirds of children and adolescents take part in sports club activities in the given countries. Sports club participants were more likely to meet the overall PA recommendations (OR 2.4–6.4) and VPA recommendation (OR 2.8–5.0) than non-participants. Conclusions: The extent to which overall PA and/or VPA is gained through sports club participation versus other settings needs to be further studied. Nonetheless, it can be argued that sports clubs have an important position in PA promotion for younger populations.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
ISSN
1403-4948
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2019
Issue of the periodical within the volume
47(8)
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
"851–858"
UT code for WoS article
000503081800006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85049873212