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- Title
Physical activity and quality of life in schoolchildren aged 11–13 years of Cuenca, Spain.
- Authors
Sánchez‐López, M.; Salcedo‐Aguilar, F.; Solera‐Martínez, M.; Moya‐Martínez, P.; Notario‐Pacheco, B.; Martínez–Vizcaíno, V.
- Abstract
This study examined the differences in quality of life (QoL) between active and sedentary schoolchildren and analyzed these differences by gender and weight status. A total of 1409 children, aged 11–13 years, from 20 schools located in 20 municipalities of the province of Cuenca were invited to participate in a cross-sectional study; 1073 children agreed (76.15% response rate), of which 536 (49.9%) were boys. QoL was measured with Child Health and Illness Profile– Child Edition (CHIP-CE), an instrument measuring children's perception of their own health using a Likert-type scale with five dimensions: satisfaction, comfort, resilience, risk avoidance, and achievement. Multivariate analysis of variance using the scores of the different CHIP-CE dimensions as dependent variables, physical activity, gender, and body mass index (BMI) category as fixed factors, and age as co-variate showed the following: (1) the scores of active children were significantly better than the scores of sedentary children for every dimension except risk avoidance; (2) there were no significant differences in QoL by BMI category; and (3) girls had better mean scores than boys for resilience, risk avoidance, and achievement, and worse scores for comfort. These results suggest that active children have a better QoL and that gender differences favoring boys diminish or even reverse to favor active girls.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S health; QUALITY of life; EXERCISE physiology; EXERCISE &; psychology; PHYSICAL fitness research; SEX differences (Biology); BODY weight; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 6, p879
- ISSN
0905-7188
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0838.2008.00839.x