Department of Community Health and Geriatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Nosrat St., Tohid Sq., 1419733171, Tehran, Iran.
Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2021 Apr 13;33(3):65-74. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2020-0302.
This systematic and meta-analysis review was conducted to determine the status of Iranian children and adolescents' physical activity.
All the related articles which were published in the major databases, including Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, Magiran, SID from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2019, were reviewed by researchers. The Newcastle-Ottawa scale was also used to evaluate the quality of articles. Moreover, index and chi-square were used to assess the heterogeneity between the results.
490 articles were found as a result of the search in the selected international and local databases, where finally, 10 articles were included into the meta-analysis after the elimination of the duplicated articles and applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results indicated that 29.5% of the girls were considered active according to WHO criteria (16.1-42.8: 95% CI) and also 20.5% of the boys (7.3-33.7: 95% CI).
Overall, this study's findings showed that a large percentage of Iranian children and adolescents do not achieve the level of physical activity recommended by the World Health Organization. This can lead to undesirable consequences for this group of population that is considered as the human capital of any country; consequently, it seems necessary to take basic measures at the micro and macro levels in order to reduce such problems in the society.
本系统评价和荟萃分析旨在评估伊朗儿童和青少年身体活动的现状。
研究人员检索了 2010 年初至 2019 年底发表在 Pubmed、Scopus、Web of Science、Embase、Magiran 和 SID 等主要数据库中的所有相关文章。文章质量采用纽卡斯尔-渥太华量表进行评估。此外，还采用卡方检验和 I² 指数评估结果间的异质性。
通过对选定的国际和本地数据库进行搜索，共发现 490 篇文章，最终排除重复文章并应用纳入和排除标准后，有 10 篇文章纳入荟萃分析。结果表明，按照世卫组织标准（16.1-42.8：95%CI），29.5%的女孩被认为是活跃的，而 20.5%的男孩（7.3-33.7：95%CI）也是如此。
总体而言，本研究结果表明，很大比例的伊朗儿童和青少年没有达到世界卫生组织推荐的身体活动水平。这可能会对这一人群产生不良后果，因为他们被视为任何国家的人力资本；因此，似乎有必要在微观和宏观层面采取基本措施，以减少社会中的此类问题。
