Acti-study: avaliação dos níveis de atividade física em crianças da região de Trás-os-Montes
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children engage in at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (FA) for children and adolescents. However, there are few children who follow these recommendations. In Portugal, some data suggest that only 7% of young people comply with it. Unfortunately, most studies on physical activity take place in urban areas, so we still know relatively little about how active children and adolescents are in regions such as Alfândega da Fé. Thus, the Acti-study aims to evaluate the levels of PA in children and adolescents between 5th and 9th grade with ages between 10 and 16 years, of the Alfândega da Fé. Subsequently, it is intended to analyse the differences in PA levels between rural and urban areas. The project includes two phases: (1) Implementation of sociodemographic questionnaire to obtain general information about the target population; (2) An intervention phase through the assessment of the PA levels using accelerometry (ActiGraph®) and body composition by anthropometric measures. The first phase will be based socio-demographic questionnaires in representative sample of children living in rural zones to understand the determinants for the physical activity. Data collection will be conducted in the municipality of Alfandega da Fé between September and December 2022. As a research hypothesis, higher levels of regular PA are defined for children in rural areas.
