Joint physical-activity/screen-time trajectories during early childhood: socio-demographic predictors and consequences on health-related quality-of-life and socio-emotional outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the early roots of physical activity and sedentary behaviors is critical to developing intervention programs that promote healthy lifestyle habits in infants and children. There is, however, no evidence on how these behaviors cluster and develop together during early childhood. The aim of this study was to identify single and joint longitudinal trajectories in physical activity and screen time amongst children aged 0 to 9 years, their social-demographic predictors and their prospective health-related quality-of-life and socio-emotional outcomes.

Methods

Three waves of data from The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a national study tracking two cohorts every 2 years (B-cohort, 0-5 years, n = 4,164; K-cohort, 4-9 years, n = 3,974) were analys

SUBMITTER: Del Pozo-Cruz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615223 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature