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APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
Volume 38, Issue 11, Pages 1173-1175Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2013-0137
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childcare; preschooler; physical activity; accelerometry; outdoors; indoors
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- Academic Development Fund at the University of Western Ontario
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Master's Award
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
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Preschoolers' (n = 31) physical activity (PA) levels during indoor and outdoor childcare hours were explored using accelerometers. Participants engaged in 0.54 min/h (SD = 0.59) of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and 14.42 min/h (SD = 6.78) of total PA (TPA) indoors compared with 5.03 min/h (SD = 4.92) of MVPA and 31.68 min/h (SD = 0.83) of TPA outdoors. Boys and girls engaged in significantly more TPA outdoors; however, only boys demonstrated a significant increase in MVPA outdoors.
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