- Title
- Fundamental movement skills and physical activity of 3–4-year-old children within early childhood centers in New Zealand
- Creator
- Ali, Ajmol; McLachlan, Claire; McLaughlin, Tara; Mugridge, Owen; Conlon, Cathryn
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179748
- Identifier
- vital:15640
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/children8090742
- Identifier
- ISBN:2227-9067 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- We sought to describe and explore relationships between fundamental movement skills (FMS) and level of physical activity (PA; light-, medium-, vigorous, and kCal/hour) in preschool children, aged 3–4-years-old, across four early childhood education (ECE) settings. Children’s FMS were assessed using the Test for Gross Motor Development-2 (TGMD-2; n = 81) and PA via accelerometers (S = 53). Eighty-four children participated, with 50 in both assessments. The TGMD-2 showed as the children got older, their locomotor skills (p < 0.001, r = 0.512) and object control motor skills (p < 0.001, r = 0.383) improved. Accelerometry showed children were primarily inactive at ECE (78.3% of the time). There were significant correlations between kCal/hour and light (p < 0.001, r = −0.688), moderate (p < 0.001, r = 0.599) and vigorous (p < 0.001, rs = 0.707) activity, and between gross motor quotient and locomotor (p < 0.001, r = 0.798) and object control (p < 0.001, r = 0.367) skills. No correlation was observed between gross motor quotient and kCal/hour. To conclude, children in this cohort were primarily inactive during ECE center hours. Moreover, gross motor quotient was significantly correlated to locomotor and object control skills. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Claire McLaughlin” is provided in this record**
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Relation
- Children Vol. 8, no. 9 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; Accelerometry; Motor skills; Physical education; Preschool; Test of Gross Motor Development; TGMD-2; Wellbeing
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This study was jointly funded by BestStart Educare and Massey University Research Fund.
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