Stable physical activity tracking during children's guided active play [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 ObjectivePhysical activity (PA) decreases during childhood with PA tracking statistics showing moderate coefficients in early childhood moving to poor coefficients in late childhood.
Asal Moghaddaszadeh +5 more
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The rehabilitation including structured active play (RePlay) model: A conceptual model for organizing physical rehabilitation sessions based on structured active play for preschoolers with cancer [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Anti-cancer treatments, as well as cancer itself, reduce children’s cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, and gross motor functions. Early rehabilitation programs, including physical activity for childhood cancer patients, can counteract these ...
Anna Pouplier +9 more
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Physical environmental opportunities for active play and physical activity level in preschoolers: a multicriteria analysis [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Active play opportunities seems to influence the level of physical activity during childhood. However, a gap remains about which environmental opportunities including the daycare physical environment could have a positive impact on the level ...
Juliana Nogueira Pontes Nobre +10 more
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Physically Active Play as a Context for Motor Learning in Children with and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Conceptual Synthesis of Cross-Domain Alignment [PDF]
ChildrenBackground/Objectives: Physically active play (PA-play) offers natural, self-directed, and varied opportunities for physical activity and motor skill development in children.
Osnat Atun-Einy, Maninderjit Kaur
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Active Play Opportunities at Child Care [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2015 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Physical activity (PA) is important for children’s health and development, yet preschoolers are not meeting PA recommendations. The objective of this study was to examine different PA opportunities at child care and how variation in indoor versus outdoor and free versus teacher-led ...
Pooja S, Tandon +2 more
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2025 Position statement on active outdoor play [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityBackground In 2015, the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play was released in Canada, emphasizing the critical role of active outdoor play—with its risks—in fostering children’s healthy development.
Eun-Young Lee +16 more
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Systematic review of how Play Streets impact opportunities for active play, physical activity, neighborhoods, and communities [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Active play and physical activity are important for preventing childhood obesity, building healthy bones and muscles, reducing anxiety and stress, and increasing self-esteem.
M. Renée Umstattd Meyer +4 more
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The effects of active play interventions on children’s fundamental movement skills: a systematic review [PDF]
BMC PediatricsBackground Many countries worldwide face the problem of underdeveloped fundamental movement skills (FMS) in children. Active play (AP) holds significant potential for enhancing children’s FMS based on its free-choice and unstructured nature, as well as ...
Xinmiao Zhang +5 more
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Play and exercise in early years: physically active play in early childhood provision
, 2008 In 2007 the National Children’s Bureau’s Research, Evidence and Evaluation Department was asked to undertake a research project on behalf of Play England, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
National Children’s Bureau +5 more
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Creating accessible play spaces [PDF]
, 2017 This toolkit was developed by Play Wales to help provide guidance for policy makers and designers of disabled children's play spaces.It has full information about different disabilities and what type of surfaces and environments work best.
Pickering, Dawn, Play Wales
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