What is it about?
Screen-time is one of the most popular activities in children and has been associated with poor health outcomes. We explored the associations between children and adolescents screen-time and key attributes of physical activity; cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, and fundamental movement skills. We found that higher screen-time was associated with a lower likelihood of fitness and fundamental movement skills in adolescents suggesting that the negative effects of screen-time are incremental, emerging during adolescence.
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Why is it important?
The need for interventions that encourage children to reduce and replace screen-time with physical activity may become increasingly important for the current generation of children who are the first to have lifelong exposure to screen devices
Perspectives
Screen devices are now part of everyday living, but we need to raise community awareness of the potential harm of excessive screen-time. Few people know what the screen-time recommendations are and we must actively promote these - especially no screen-time during infancy and limiting day-time screen-time during childhood. We need to encourage children (and adults) to swap some screen-time for physical activity.
Louise Hardy
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Association Between Sitting, Screen Time, Fitness Domains, and Fundamental Motor Skills in Children Aged 5–16 Years: Cross-Sectional Population Study, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, November 2018, Human Kinetics,
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2017-0620.
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