Physical Activity of Children Attending Afterschool Programs
Abstract
Background Afterschool programs (3PM-6PM; ASPs) are positioned to play a vital role in the improvement of children's daily physical activity. Recent guidelines specify that children should accumulate 4600 steps per day while attending an ASP. The extent to which ASPs currently meet this goal and how many steps per day children naturally accumulate within the ASP setting is unknown. Purpose The purpose of this study was to describe the pedometer-determined physical activity of a large sample of children attending a diverse range of ASPs and evaluate the extent to which ASPs are meeting current physical activity guidelines. Methods Children (N=934, 51% girls, average 8.2 years; range 4-14 years) enrolled across 25 ASPs wore Walk4Life MVPa pedometers (number of steps accumulated, time spent active [hours:minutes:seconds]) up to 4 days. Data were collected in fall/spring 2010-2011 and analyzed in summer 2011. Results On average, children attended ASPs for 125 minutes per day, accumulated 2944 steps per day, and spent approximately 26.6 minutes per day in physical activity. Only 16.5% of the 1819 daily observations met the 4600 steps per day guideline. No differences in steps per day, minutes per day in physical activity, or demographics were observed among children measured a single day versus 2, 3, or 4 days. Based on current practice, children would need to spend approximately 3.4 hours per day at an ASP to reach 4600 steps per day. Conclusions Activity levels in ASPs are well below recommendations. Substantial effort is needed to identify strategies ASPs can employ to ensure children are sufficiently active.
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Physical activity levels in schools, community sporting clubs and ASPs are typically much lower than recommended.
“For example, physical activity levels in these settings are typically much lower than recommended [18–20]”
Schools, community sporting clubs and ASPs are not achieving their full potential.
“Despite demonstrating promise, evidence suggests schools, community sporting clubs and ASPs are not achieving their full potential.”
Beets and colleagues reviewed 25 diverse ASPs in the United States and found that only 16.5% of daily observations satisfied the physical activity target of at least 4600 steps.
“For example, Beets and colleagues [18] reviewed 25 diverse ASPs in the United States and found that only 16.5% of daily observations satisfied the physical activity target (i.e., at least 4600 steps).”
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- Authors
- Beets, M. W., Huberty, J., & Beighle, A.
- Affiliations
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Corresponding author
- Beets, Michael W.
- Venue
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-02
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 180-184
- ISSN
- 0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1586451158
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 6.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- after-school programs, children's physical activity, daily step count, physical activity guidelines, pedometer-measured activity, childhood sedentary behavior
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Child Care, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Exercise, Guideline Adherence
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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