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- Title
Moderators of movement behaviour changes among Canadian toddlers and preschoolers throughout the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Authors
Carson, Valerie; Zhang, Zhiguang; Boyd, Madison; Potter, Morgan; Li, Joshua; Kuzik, Nicholas; Hunter, Stephen
- Abstract
Primary objectives were to examine: (1) changes in movement behaviours (i.e., outdoor play (OP), organized physical activity (PA), screen time (ST), sleep) across the first 2 years of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) among Canadian toddlers and preschoolers, and (2) intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, and policy moderators of change in movement behaviors. Participants were 341 Canadian parents of children (start of study: 1–4 years; 48% female). Participants completed online questionnaires regarding their children's movement behaviours and intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community factors at five time-points before and throughout the pandemic (T1–T5). Data from government websites were also used for some community and policy factors. Linear mixed models were conducted. Compared to pre-COVID-19 (T1): OP was on average 30 min/day higher at T2 and T3; organized PA was on average 62, 44, and 37 min/day lower at T2, T3, and T4, respectively; ST was on average 67, 17, 38, and 52 min/day higher at T2, T3, T4, and T5, respectively; and sleep was on average 30, 36, and 82 min/day lower at T3, T4, and T5, respectively. Significant moderating variables were observed for OP (parental education, parental work inside home, COVID-19 restriction severity), organized PA (children's sex, started kindergarten, nonparental care, parental education, household income, parental employment status, house type, indoor home space and support for PA), ST (nonparental care, parental marital status) and sleep (children's T1 age group, started kindergarten, parental place of birth, parental employment status). All movement behaviors changed across the first 2 years of COVID-19 but patterns and moderators were behaviour-specific. Children from lower socioeconomic status families had the least optimal patterns.
- Subjects
CANADA; PLAY; RESEARCH funding; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; BEHAVIOR; PARENT attitudes; SCREEN time; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STAY-at-home orders; LONGITUDINAL method; SLEEP; RESEARCH methodology; BODY movement; INTERPERSONAL relations; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; DATA analysis software; COVID-19 pandemic; PHYSICAL activity
- Publication
Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, 2024, Vol 49, Issue 9, p1228
- ISSN
1715-5312
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/apnm-2023-0453