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Assessing Physical Activity And Sedentary Time In The Early Years, Leigh M. Vanderloo
Assessing Physical Activity And Sedentary Time In The Early Years, Leigh M. Vanderloo
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The overall purpose of this dissertation was to explore young children’s (18 months to 5 years) physical activity and sedentary time. Study 1 assessed the physical activity and sedentary time among a sample of toddlers from London, Canada using two data processing approaches. Study 2 explored the impact of three different early learning environments, and their respective characteristics (e.g., staff behaviours, equipment, sedentary opportunities, etc.), on preschoolers’ activity levels. Study 3 examined differences in two popular accelerometers used to measure young children’s physical activity and sedentary time to better understand measurement discrepancies.
Study 1 revealed that toddlers engaged in 37.27 …