Associations of activity, sedentary, and sleep behaviors with cognitive and social-emotional health in early childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early childhood is important for cognitive and social-emotional development, and a time in which to promote healthy movement behaviors (sedentary behavior, physical activity, and sleep). Movement behaviors may have interactive influences on cognition and social-emotional factors in young children, but most previous research has explored them independently. The purpose of this study was to determine if movement behaviors are associated with measures of cognitive and social-emotional health in young children and if so, to describe optimal compositions of movement behaviors of a daily cycle for such outcomes.

Methods

Children (n = 388, 33 to 70 months, 44.6% female) from a clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03285880, first posted September 18, 2017) wore accel

SUBMITTER: St Laurent CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11116218 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature