The 24-h Movement Compositions in Weekday, Weekend Day or Four-Day Periods Differentially Associate with Fundamental Movement Skills.

Clare M P Roscoe,Cain C T Clark,Michael J Duncan

doi:10.3390/children8100828

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between weekday, weekend day and four-day physical activity (PA) behaviours and fundamental movement skills (FMS) in British preschool children from a low socio-economic status background using compositional data analysis (CoDA). One hundred and eighty-five preschool children aged 3–4 years provided objectively assessed PA and sedentary behaviour (SB) data (GENEActiv accelerometer) and FMS (TGMD-2). The association of 24-h movement behaviours with FMS was explored using CoDA and isotemporal substitution (R Core Team, 3.6.1). When data were considered compositionally (SB, light PA (LPA), moderate and vigorous PA (MVPA)) and adjusted for age, BMI and sex, the weekday-derived composition predicted total motor competence (r2 = 0.07), locomotor (r2 = 0.08) and object control skills (r2 = 0.09); the weekend day-derived composition predicted total motor competence (r2 = 0.03) and object control skills (r2 = 0.03), the 4-day-derived composition predicted total motor competence (r2 = 0.07), locomotor (r2 = 0.07) and object control skills (r2 = 0.06) (all p < 0.05). Reallocation of 5 min of LPA at the expense of any behaviour was associated with significant improvements in total motor competence, locomotor and object control skills; for weekend-derived behaviours, MVPA was preferential. Considering movement behaviours over different time periods is required to better understand the effect of the 24-h movement composition on FMS in preschool children.

Highlights

Physical activity (PA) during the preschool years is critical to a child’s development, overall health and well-being, concomitant to reducing the likelihood of disease and illness during and beyond childhood [1,2,3]
Preschool children not adhering to the recommended PA guidelines represent a concern, especially those from a lower socio-economic status (SES) background, who have less access to PA opportunities and less chance for the development of fundamental movement skills (FMS) [14]
FMS when fixed durations of time for movement behaviours have been reallocated during weekdays, weekend days and 4-day behaviours in preschool children

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Physical activity (PA) during the preschool years is critical to a child’s development, overall health and well-being, concomitant to reducing the likelihood of disease and illness during and beyond childhood [1,2,3]. It has been recommended that preschool children in the UK should be participating in at least 180 min of PA per day and this should include 60 min of moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) [5]. Preschool children spend the majority of their day in SB and a low proportion of their day in MVPA (

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