2026-04-30T07:02:00Zhttps://ebiltegia.mondragon.edu/oai/requestoai:ebiltegia.mondragon.edu:20.500.11984/60822024-03-01T12:00:32Zcom_20.500.11984_473col_20.500.11984_476
Physical Activity Levels and Sleep in Schoolchildren (6–17) with and without School Sport
Albisua, Neritzel
Larrinaga-Undabarrena, Arkaitz
Río, Xabier
Sáez, Iker
Angulo-Garay, Garazi
Martínez Aguirre-Betolaza, Aitor
Martínez de Lahidalga Aguirre, Gorka
Sánchez Isla, José Ramón
García, Natalia
Urbano, Mikel
Guerra-Balic, Myriam
Fernández, Juan Ramón
Coca, Aitor
Physical activity
Sleep
Schoolchildren
Sedentary behaviour
School sport
Accelerometer
There is strong evidence to support the association between daily physical activity and sleep
parameters in children and adolescents. Physical activity and outdoor play are favourably associated
with most sleep outcomes in school children. The aim is to find out the levels of physical activity
and the quality of sleep in Basque schoolchildren aged between six and seventeen and to analyse the
possible differences between those who carry out some kind of physical sports activity and those
who do not. The sample consisted of 1082 schoolchildren (50.1% male and 49.9% female). Differences
between groups were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test (2 samples) and Kruskal–Wallis
one-factor ANOVA (k samples). A total of 723 (66.94%) of the participants said they practiced some
physical sports activity. The accelerometers obtained significant differences in all levels of physical
activity, as well as in sleep efficiency, with higher levels of physical activity (sedentary p = 0.001;
light p = 0.017; moderate p = 0.009; vigorous p = 0.001 and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
p = 0.002) and better sleep efficiency (p = 0.002) in those schoolchildren who perform some type
of physical sports activity. A significant difference in time spent in sedentary activities was also
observed between primary and secondary school pupils of both sexes and regardless of the degree of
physical sports activity completion.
2023-05-19T15:17:29Z
2023-05-19T15:17:29Z
2023
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
1660-4601
https://katalogoa.mondragon.edu/janium-bin/janium_login_opac.pl?find&ficha_no=172534
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11984/6082
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