Abstract
Motor skill competence of children is one of the important predictors of health because if a child is physically active during early childhood, the possibility of occurrence of many chronic diseases in adulthood will be reduced. The aim of this study was to systematically review the studies conducted in healthy children using the shorter form of the Bruininks-Oseretsky (BOT-2) and to determine the applicability in cross-sectional studies and pre-post designs. The search and analysis of the studies were done in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines. An electronic databases search (Google Scholar, PubMed, Mendeley, Science Direct, and Scopus) yielded 250 relevant studies conducted from 2011 to 2020. A total of 21 studies were included in quantitative synthesis, with a total of 3893 participants, both male and female. Through this study, the BOT-2 test proved its broad applicability, so it can be concluded that this test can be used to improve motor proficiency in a healthy population of children. Hence, it is necessary to invest a lot of time during the implementation of various programs so that children would adequately develop their basic motor skills so they broaden their own repertoire of movements.
Highlights
IntroductionBasic motor skills are crucially important integral elements for mastering complex movements, but they are necessary components for the building of movements required for involvement in sports [1], that consists of control over objects (throwing or catching the ball), fundamental locomotor movements (running, jumping, skipping), as well as of stability, i.e., balance [2]
Basic motor skills are crucially important integral elements for mastering complex movements, but they are necessary components for the building of movements required for involvement in sports [1], that consists of control over objects, fundamental locomotor movements, as well as of stability, i.e., balance [2]
It should be noted that the test validity and reliability were proved in the sample of healthy children [35,36,37]
Summary
Basic motor skills are crucially important integral elements for mastering complex movements, but they are necessary components for the building of movements required for involvement in sports [1], that consists of control over objects (throwing or catching the ball), fundamental locomotor movements (running, jumping, skipping), as well as of stability, i.e., balance [2]. The greatest development of basic motor skills occurs during early childhood and is associated with the physical [3] social and cognitive development of a child [4,5], as well as with many health factors, such as cardiorespiratory fitness [6], and adiposity [2,7]. Movement provides the ability to transfer information between the cerebral hemispheres, that is, the more a child moves, the more they learn and receive information from the environment [9]. This is a broad term that refers to the ability to exercise various motor skills in a consistent and very skillful way [10,11]. Every time a movement occurs, sensory-motor stimulation enables and helps children to interact and understand their environment, which largely depends on the body itself and the speed of processing perceptual information [12]
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