Risk Factors Associated with Poor Physical Fitness in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children in Tujia-Nationality Settlement of China

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dc.creatorLiu, Xiaoli
dc.creatorXiang, Zheng
dc.creatorLiu, Chaoneng
dc.creatorShi, Xiangrong
dc.creatorYi, Xinfeng
dc.creatorCheng, Mingyan
dc.creatorSchenck, Hannah
dc.creatorBates, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-28T20:48:00Z
dc.date.available2022-11-28T20:48:00Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-08
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Physical fitness has been recognized not only as an integrated predictor of the body's functional status, but also as an important marker of health outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the factors associated with physical fitness among 3-6-year-old children within the Tujia-Nationality settlement in the years 2005, 2010, and 2014. METHODS: Demographics questionnaires and fitness assessment were performed to identify the risk factors for poor physical fitness (PPF) among 3- to 6-year-old children in the years 2005, 2010, and 2014 in the area of southwest Hubei of China. RESULTS: Of the 2128 children, 495 were classified as PPF (23.3%). In 2005, the percentage of PPF children was 21.7%, and the percentage of PPF children decreased from 29.1% in 2010 to 18.8% in 2014. Furthermore, Urban area children had a significant risk of PPF than rural area children (OR=1.299, P=0.031). Three-year-old children had 2.150-fold risk of PPF as compared to 6-year-old children. The children with less than 0.5 hours of activity time per day had 1.95-fold risk of PPF as compared to those with 1-2-hour activity time per day, respectively. Underweight and overweight/obese children had 2.74-fold and 1.67-fold risk of PPF as compared to normal weight children. Children had 1.97-fold risk of PPF when their father's schooling ceased after middle school and 1.51-fold risk of PPF when their father's schooling ceased after high school, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrated that the incidence of PPF children went up from 2005 to 2010 and then down from 2010 to 2014 within the Tujia settlement. For the children in this area, the risk factors associated with PPF included urban location, younger age, less than 1-hour activity time per day in kindergarten, underweight/overweight, low father's education level, and mother's childbearing age being less than 20 years.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding for Xiaoli Liu was provided by social science funding from Hubei Provincial Department of Education (Q15d072), China.
dc.identifier.citationLiu, X., Xiang, Z., Liu, C., Shi, X., Yi, X., Cheng, M., Schenck, H., & Bates, J. (2018). Risk Factors Associated with Poor Physical Fitness in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children in Tujia-Nationality Settlement of China. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2018, 5702190. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5702190
dc.identifier.issn1741-427X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12503/31975
dc.identifier.volume2018
dc.publisherHindawi
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5702190
dc.rights.holder© 2018 Xiaoli Liu et al.
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
dc.titleRisk Factors Associated with Poor Physical Fitness in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children in Tujia-Nationality Settlement of China
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