Associations between fitness, physical activity and mental health in a community sample of young British adolescents: baseline data from the Fit to Study trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine relationships between fitness, physical activity and psychosocial problems among English secondary school pupils and to explore how components of physically active lifestyles are associated with mental health and well-being.

Methods

A total of 7385 participants aged 11-13 took a fitness test and completed self-reported measures of physical activity, attitudes to activity, psychosocial problems and self-esteem during the Fit to Study trial. Multilevel regression, which modelled school-level cluster effects, estimated relationships between activity, fitness and psychosocial problems; canonical correlation analysis (CCA) explored modes of covariation between active lifestyle and mental health variables. Models were adjusted for covariates of sex, free scho

SUBMITTER: Wheatley C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547542 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature