Relationships between physical activity, physical fitness and motor coordination in children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status

• Grant number: 12/50620-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Physical Education
• Principal Investigator: Alessandro Hervaldo Nicolai Ré
• Grantee: Alessandro Hervaldo Nicolai Ré
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The acquisition of motor skills during childhood can be considered an important strategy for adhesion to physical activity throughout life. Thus the following objectives are proposed: a) to quantify the physical activity practice, to measure heath-related physical fitness and performance indicators in fundamental motor skills and b) to examine the relationships between these variables in children and adolescents of both sexes residents in Ermelino Matarazzo (SP). Nine hundred youth aged between six and fourteen years will be invited to participate in the study. The measures include indicators of the amount of physical activity using an accelerometer (ActiGraph GT3X) and a physical activity questionnaire, indicators of physical fitness using the Eurofit test battery (Council of Europe, 1988) and performance in fundamental motor skills (TGMD-2, proposed by Ulrich, 2000) and anthropometric characteristics (BMI, kg.m -2). It will be developed descriptive tables of results, verified the relationships between variables by means of Pearson's correlation coefficient and to verify possible differences between and within groups a multivariate analysis of variance (Manova) of two factors will be calculated: gender (male and female) x age group (annual range). Significant main effects will be analyzed using a Newman-Keuls post-hoc test. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CATTUZZO, MARIA TERESA; HENRIQUE, RAFAEL DOS SANTOS; NICOLAI RE, ALESSANDRO HERVALDO; DE OLIVEIRA, ILANA SANTOS; MELO, BRUNO MACHADO; MOURA, MARIANA DE SOUSA; DE ARAUJO, RODRIGO CAPPATO; STODDEN, DAVID. Motor competence and health related physical fitness in youth: A systematic review. JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT, v. 19, n. 2, p. 123-129, FEB 2016. (12/50620-2)

NICOLAI RE, ALESSANDRO H.; CATTUZZO, MARIA TERESA; HENRIQUE, RAFAEL DOS SANTOS; STODDEN, DAVID F.. Physical characteristics that predict involvement with the ball in recreational youth soccer. JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, v. 34, n. 18, p. 1716-1722, SEP 2016. (12/50620-2)

HENRIQUE, RAFAEL S.; RE, ALESSANDRO H. N.; STODDEN, DAVID F.; FRANSEN, JOB; CAMPOS, CAROLINA M. C.; QUEIROZ, DANIEL R.; CATTUZZO, MARIA T.. Association between sports participation, motor competence and weight status: A longitudinal study. JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT, v. 19, n. 10, p. 825-829, OCT 2016. (12/50620-2)