Abstract
BackgroundPhysical activity is a multifactorial trait, determined by both individual and environmental characteristics, it seems relevant to understand the determinants related to youth guidelines accomplishment. The present study aimed to verify the differences between the Brazilian federative units regarding to the prevalence of youth physical activity guidelines accomplishment and to investigate the determinants related to the inter-individual differences in this accomplishment.MethodsSample comes from the 2015 Brazilian National School Health Survey (PeNSE), comprising 99,570 adolescents (51,527 girls, 13-17y), enrolled in 3039 schools. Adolescents reported the time they spend in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, and they were categorized as active or inactive, if the guidelines were achieved, or not, respectively, and multilevel statistical analyses were used, including both child and school-level variables. Multilevel Binomial model was computed in the SuperMix software.ResultsThe majority of the adolescents did not comply with the physical activity guidelines daily, where Bahian children complied the least, while those from Amazonas, Tocantins, and Mato Grosso do Sul complied the most. Boys (OR: 2.305; 95%CI: 2.277-2.334), older adolescents (OR: 1.044; 95%CI: 1.036-1.051), and those who spent more time in active travelling to/from school (OR: 1.001; 95%CI: 1.001-1.001) complied more the physical activity guidelines. At the school level, adolescents from larger schools (OR: 0.957; 95%CI: 0.928-0.986) tended to comply less with the guidelines.ConclusionSignificant differences between Brazilian federative units in youth daily physical activity guidelines compliance were observed, highlighting the role of individual but also environmental constraints in the Brazilian adolescents’ engagement in physical activity.
Highlights
Physical activity is a multifactorial trait, determined by both individual and environmental characteristics, it seems relevant to understand the determinants related to youth guidelines accomplishment
Studies focusing in the identification of determinants of youth physical activity, have pointed that a large number of predictors can act in the explanation of the inter-individual variability in physical activity levels, which are related to individual and to environmental characteristics, such as age, sex, sociodemographic, socioeconomic status, parental education, school infrastructure, and physical education classes [7,8,9,10,11]
It was observed that the majority of them have more than 500 students enrolled
Summary
Physical activity is a multifactorial trait, determined by both individual and environmental characteristics, it seems relevant to understand the determinants related to youth guidelines accomplishment. Studies focusing in the identification of determinants of youth physical activity, have pointed that a large number of predictors can act in the explanation of the inter-individual variability in physical activity levels, which are related to individual and to environmental characteristics, such as age, sex, sociodemographic, socioeconomic status, parental education, school infrastructure, and physical education classes [7,8,9,10,11]. Since physical activity is a multifactorial trait, determined by both individual and environmental characteristics, it seems relevant to understand the determinants related to youth guidelines accomplishment. The present study aims (1) to verify the differences between the Brazilian federative units regarding to the prevalence of youth physical activity guidelines accomplishment and (2) to investigate the determinants related to the inter-individual differences in this accomplishment
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