Are children meeting any of the suggested daily step
recommendations?

• Authors: Timothy A. Brusseau , Catrine Tudor-Locke , Pamela H. Kulinna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Study aim: Over the past decade there have been numerous efforts to identify how many steps/day children should accumulate. Recommendations range from 10,000 to 16,500 steps/day. The purpose of this article was to examine the percentage of elementary school aged children meeting nine different sets of steps/day recommendations.Material and methods: 786 Southwestern US children (410 girls, BMI 19.3±4.2) wore the Yamax Digiwalker SW-200 pedometer and recorded their steps/day for 7 consecutive days. Mean steps/day was calculated and the percent-age of students meeting each of the various steps/day recommendations was determined.Results: Children averaged 11,113±3,666 steps/day. Sixty-one percent of all children met a minimum of 10,000 steps/day. Thirty-six percent met the most widely used recommendation of 11,000 and 13,000 steps/day for boys and girls, respectively. Using BMI referenced recommendations, between 10-52% of children met various guidelines.Conclusions: Southwestern US children in the current sample are not getting enough daily activity to meet the ma-jority of step recommendations. Findings suggest that less than 33% of children are active for 60 minutes of physical activity (inferred from one of the guidelines) a day and only 36% would qualify for the Presidential Active Life-styles Award. Additional school and home-based physical activity programming is clearly needed.

Keywords

EN

Physical Education; Health; Pedometer; Physical Activity

• Publisher: Versita
• Journal: Biomedical Human Kinetics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 11-16

Dates

online

13 - 09 - 2013

Contributors

author

Timothy A. Brusseau

• University of Utah

author

Catrine Tudor-Locke

• Pennington Biomedical Research Center

author

Pamela H. Kulinna

• Arizona State University, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bhk-2013-0003