Department of Exercise Science, 921 Assembly Street, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Health Place. 2012 Sep;18(5):951-5. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.013. Epub 2012 Jun 28.
After-school hours are considered critical for children's physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviors (SB); however, whether the after-school setting influences children's activity patterns is unknown. This study examined the influence of after-school setting (i.e., parent report of the child's usual after-school setting) on 5th grade children's PA and SB, and differences by race/ethnicity. Boys whose parents reported they usually attended an after-school program had higher PA than boys who usually went home after school. A significant interaction between race/ethnicity and after-school setting showed that minority girls whose parents reported they usually attended an after-school program had higher PA and engaged in less SB compared with those who usually went home, whereas the activity patterns of white girls did not differ by after-school setting. Children's usual after-school setting affects their activity patterns; after-school programs may potentially increase PA in boys and minority girls.
课余时间被认为对儿童的身体活动(PA)和久坐行为(SB)至关重要;然而,课余环境是否会影响儿童的活动模式尚不清楚。本研究考察了课余环境(即父母报告的孩子通常的课余环境)对 5 年级儿童 PA 和 SB 的影响,以及不同种族/族裔之间的差异。父母报告孩子通常参加课后项目的男孩比放学后通常回家的男孩有更高的 PA。种族/族裔和课余环境之间存在显著的交互作用,表明父母报告孩子通常参加课后项目的少数族裔女孩比通常回家的女孩有更高的 PA 和更少的 SB,而白人女孩的活动模式则不受课余环境的影响。儿童通常的课余环境会影响他们的活动模式;课后项目可能会增加男孩和少数族裔女孩的 PA。