Academic achievement and healthy lifestyle habits in primary school children: an interventional study.

ABSTRACT:

Purposes

First, to examine the relationship between primary school children's academic achievement and healthy lifestyle habits. Second, to evaluate the effectiveness of two different 5-month physical education interventions (traditional physical education vs. coordinative physical education) on children's academic achievement. Third, to examine whether variations of anthropometric variables, fitness level, gross motor coordination, physical activity level, sedentary time, attentional performance, fruit and vegetable consumption, meal frequency and type of physical education intervention could predict children's academic achievement variations.

Methods

Before and after the intervention, Italian language and mathematics skills, anthropometric variables (weight, height, body f

SUBMITTER: Gallotta MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11298431 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature