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Association between participation in outdoor play and sport at 10 years old with physical activity in adulthood
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posted on 2015-10-28, 14:38 authored by Lee Smith, Benjamin Gardner, Daniel Aggio, Mark HamerObjective. This study aimed to investigate whether active outdoor play and/or sports at age 10 is associated
with sport/physical activity at 32 year follow-up using a birth cohort study.
Methods. Data were from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study. The present paper
included data from the age 10 years and age 42 years surveys. At age 10 the participant's mother provided information
regarding how often their child played sports, and played outside on streets, parks or playgrounds. At age
42 participants reported frequency of participation in physical activities and sports. Associations between participation
in sport/active outdoor play at age 10 years and adult sport/physical activity were investigated using adjusted
(gender, fathers socio-occupational class, child's BMI, father's BMI, self-rated health at age 42, assessment
of own weight at age 42, participant's education) Cox regression.
Results. Final adjusted Cox regression models showed that participants (n = 6458) who often participated in
sports at age 10 were significantly more likely to participate in sport/physical activity at age 42 (RR 1.10; 95% CI
1.01 to 1.19). Active outdoor play at age 10 was not associated with participation in sport/physical activity at age
42 (RR 0.99; 95% CI 0.91 to 1.07).
Conclusion. Childhood activity interventions might best achieve lasting change by promoting engagement in
sport rather than active outdoor play.
Funding
This study is partly supported through a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/M003795/1). LS is supported by the National Institute for Health Research's School for Public Health Research. MH is supported by the British Heart Foundation (RE/10/005/28296).
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- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Preventive MedicineCitation
SMITH, L. ... et al., 2015. Association between participation in outdoor play and sport at 10 years old with physical activity in adulthood. Preventive Medicine, 74 (May), pp. 31–35.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.Version
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).ISSN
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