Parental perception and guideline awareness of children’s lifestyle behaviours at ages 5 to 14 in Singapore
In: Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Jg. 50 (2021-09-30), S. 695-702
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Introduction: There are limited data on the descriptive lifestyle behaviour of school-age children in Singapore. Methods: A total of 100 parents of children ages 5 to 14 participated in a parents’ proxy-reported survey. Frequency of moderate physical activity (PA) and vigorous PA was assessed, while t-tests or chi-square test was used to examine differences between weekdays and weekends for sleep, screen viewing time (SVT) and sedentary behaviour (SB). Results: Of the 100 children (68% of Chinese ethnicity, 59% boys, mean age 9.1±2.9 years), 31% were overweight or obese, with body mass index z-score of >1. For moderate and vigorous PA participation in a typical week, 32.0% and 43.0%, respectively, did not participate, while median (interquartile range) days of participation were 3 (2–3) days/week and 2 (1–3) days/week for a duration of 60 (interquartile range 30–120) minutes/session. When comparing weekends with weekdays, the means (standard deviation) of both SVT and sleep duration were higher on weekends (SVT: 4.1 [2.9] versus 3.3 [3.1] hours/day, P=0.07; sleep: 8.8 [1.5] vs 8.3 [1.3] hours/day, P=0.02), while there were no significant differences for SB. A higher proportion of children had SB of ≥10 hours/day and slept 0.05; sleep:18.8% vs 2.1%, P
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Parental perception and guideline awareness of children’s lifestyle behaviours at ages 5 to 14 in Singapore
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nurul Syaza Razali ; Kok Hian Tan ; Chin Chye Teo ; Nurul Sakinah Razali ; Benny Kai Guo Loo ; Phaik Ling Quah |
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Zeitschrift: | Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Jg. 50 (2021-09-30), S. 695-702 |
Veröffentlichung: | Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2021 |
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ISSN: | 0304-4602 (print) |
DOI: | 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2021134 |
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