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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages e331-e338Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12310
Keywords
Physical activity; MVPA; immediate and delayed attention; school context
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Rome Foro Italico, Rome, Italy
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To examine the influence of different types of exertion on immediate and delayed attention in 116 primary school children divided in three groups of exertion [cognitive exertion - CE (school curricular lesson), physical exertion - PE (traditional physical education lesson), mixed cognitive and physical exertion - CPE (coordinative physical education lesson)]. CPE was the combination of physical load due to the practice of physical exercises and of cognitive load requested to perform movement-based problem solving tasks requiring accurate timing, temporal estimations, temporal production, and spatial adjustments. Children's attentional capacity was tested before (pre) and after (at 0min and at 50min post) a CE, a PE, or a CPE lesson, using the d2-test of attention, and analyzed using a 3x3x2 mixed analysis of covariance with exertion type and time as within factors, gender as between factor, and baseline data as covariate. Effect sizes were calculated as partial eta squared (?(2)). Results showed that participants' attentional performance was significantly affected by exertion type (P<0.0001), by time (P<0.0001) and by exertion typextime interactions (P<0.0001). The effect sizes ranged from medium (0.039) to large (0.437). Varying the type of exertion has different beneficial influences on the level of attention in school children.
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