Physical activity behaviours in adolescence: Current evidence and opportunities for intervention
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Young people aged 10-24 years constitute 24% of the world's population; investing in their health could yield a triple benefit-eg, today, into adulthood, and for the next generation. However, in physical activity research, this life stage is poorly understood, with the evidence dominated by research in younger adolescents (aged 10-14 years), school settings, and high-income countries. Globally, 80% of adolescents are insufficiently active, and many adolescents engage in 2 h or more daily recreational screen time. In this Series paper, we present the most up-to-date global evidence on adolescent physical activity and discuss directions for identifying potential solutions to enhance physical activity in the adolescent population. Adolescent physical inactivity probably contributes to key global health problems, including cardiometabolic and mental health disorders, but the evidence is methodologically weak. Evidence-based solutions focus on three key components of the adolescent physical activity system: supportive schools, the social and digital environment, and multipurpose urban environments. Despite an increasing volume of research focused on adolescents, there are still important knowledge gaps, and efforts to improve adolescent physical activity surveillance, research, intervention implementation, and policy development are urgently needed.
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- Authors
- van Sluijs, E. M. F., Ekelund, U., Crochemore-Silva, I., Guthold, R., Ha, A., Lubans, D., Oyeyemi, A. L., Ding, D., & Katzmarzyk, P. T.
- Affiliations
- Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NO)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
- University of Maiduguri (NG)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center (US)
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-07
- Volume
- 398
- Issue
- 10298
- Pages
- 429-442
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- PMC
- PMC7612669
- OpenAlex
- W3170018027
- Cited by
- 919
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 182 · 2025: 273 · 2024: 241 · 2023: 124 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 15.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
- Apollo
- Funders
- Research Council of Norway (249932/F20)
- NIH (2P30 DK072476)
- NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Population Health Research (APP1154507)
- National Heart Foundation of Australia (101234)
- Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/7, MR/K023187/1)
- Wellcome Trust
- Cancer Research UK
- British Heart Foundation
- National Institute for Health Research
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Keywords
- adolescent physical activity, physical inactivity, screen time, school-based physical activity, social environment, digital environment, urban environment, physical activity interventions, cardiometabolic health, mental health, physical activity surveillance, physical activity policy
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent Health, Screen Time, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Schools, Global Health, Exercise, Young Adult, Sedentary Behavior
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