Enhancing physical activity levels in 9-11-year-old children of varied genders: strategies leveraging parental exercise consciousness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to explore the predictive associations of parental exercise consciousness with the physical activity (PA) status and characteristics of 9-11-year-old children, in an attempt to identify effective strategies for addressing PA insufficiency in children from a parental standpoint.

Methods

The PA rating scale-3 and the Chinese Civic Exercise Consciousness Questionnaire were used to measure primary school students' PA and their parents' exercise consciousness from 361 families in Tianjin, China. The dimensions of exercise consciousness were cognition and identity (CI), sentiment and intention (SI), attitude and willingness (AW), and rights and responsibilities (RR) dimensions. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA with post-hoc test analysis, correlation analys

SUBMITTER: Song C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11839719 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature