Biking, walking and playing outside is more fun when the sun is out, and it is not too cold? We just published a study, with Mine Yildirim as first author, looking at just that. We used data from our cross-European ENERGY study among 10-12 year olds. We looked at associations between objective data on physical activity and sedentary time -obtained with accelerometers-, with additional data on rainfall and temperature on the exact days in the countries the kids wore their accelerometers. Our results indeed showed that kids moved more with higher temperatures and moved more and sat less with less rainfall.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
How important is the weather for children's physical activity?
Biking, walking and playing outside is more fun when the sun is out, and it is not too cold? We just published a study, with Mine Yildirim as first author, looking at just that. We used data from our cross-European ENERGY study among 10-12 year olds. We looked at associations between objective data on physical activity and sedentary time -obtained with accelerometers-, with additional data on rainfall and temperature on the exact days in the countries the kids wore their accelerometers. Our results indeed showed that kids moved more with higher temperatures and moved more and sat less with less rainfall.
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