What makes children learn how to swim? - health, lifestyle and environmental factors associated with swimming ability among children in the city of Malmo, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Swimming ability among children in the city of Malmö, Sweden is strongly affected by socioeconomic differences. We investigated to what extent mediating health and lifestyle factors, such as children's eating, sleeping and physical activity habits, as well as the characteristics of the social and working environment at both school and home, could explain the socioeconomic gradient in swimming ability.

Methods

Our study population included children who started their first-grade school-year in 2012 or 2013 at any of the public primary schools of Malmö, Sweden. Cross-sectional, self-reported questionnaire-based data about health status and swimming ability in the fourth grade (age 10) were included from the Pupil Health Database (ELSA) for 3468 children.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Lohmus M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8744283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature