Maintaining recommended sleep throughout the week is associated with increased physical activity in children
Abstract
Objective Given evidence of weekday-weekend variability in children's sleep and associations with obesity there is rationale for exploring sleep in relation to weekday and weekend physical activity (PA) and examining whether weekday-weekend variations in sleep impact physical activity. Methods Children's (n=856) physical activity was measured using accelerometry (Toronto; 2010-2011). Sleep was assessed via parental report and collapsed into three categories ( Results On weekdays, children who slept the least ( 9h) compared to those engaging in weekend-catch-up-sleep. Conclusion While sleep is associated with obesity and activity in children, relationships vary by day. Recommended weekday-weekend sleep (regularity) supports healthy activity and should be an important health-promoting strategy. Future studies using longitudinal designs (to establish causality) are recommended.
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- Authors
- Stone, M. R., Stevens, D., & Faulkner, G. E. J.
- Affiliations
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Stone, Michelle R.
- Venue
- Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 112-117
- ISSN
- 0091-7435 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968401086
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 18
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- FWCI
- 6.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- University of Toronto
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- children's sleep, physical activity, catch-up sleep, sleep duration, childhood obesity, overweight, sleep regularity, light physical activity, sleep recommendations
- MeSH terms
- Canada, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Obesity, Sleep, Time and Motion Studies, Exercise, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Guidelines as Topic, Overweight, Accelerometry
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