Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical activity, but secondary
effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and personal development and less …

Introduction: A vast majority of children and adolescents are physically inactive. As a result,
high obesity rates and related diseases have made physical activity promotion a politically …

To meet daily physical activity time recommendations, particularly in children, the pattern of
overall 24-hour activity needs to be considered, since the day is made up of sleep time …

Aim These international clinical practice recommendations (CPR) for developmental
coordination disorder (DCD), initiated by the European Academy of Childhood Disability …

Purpose: Physical activity is known to provide important health benefits in school-age youth.
However, until recently few studies have examined associations between physical activity …

Objective The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to
increase physical activity (PA) in 0–5 year olds and to determine what works, for whom, in …

Background Knowledge of physical activity (PA) in preschool populations is important for
public health promotion. We investigated levels of PA in a large sample of Norwegian …

Introduction Interventions to promote physical activity in children should be informed by
knowledge of the factors that influence physical activity behavior during critical …

The aim of this study was to compare how the organization of a movement session as partly
structured play or free play influenced the physical activity engagement in 4–5 years old pre …

Background: Pre-school years are important for adopting health behaviours; however,
today's children seem to be overweight, present low physical activity (PA) levels and exceed …