{"doi":"10.1080/19325037.2020.1853631","title":"Patterning of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior at and Away from School in Preadolescent Children","abstract":"BACKGROUND: children accumulate their physical activity (PA) and sedentary minutes throughout the day has important implications for behavioral interventions. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the duration and intensity of habitual PA and sedentary time (SED) at and away from school among preadolescent children. METHODS: Data from twenty-one children ages 7-11 (57% girls; 57% non-white; 24% overweight/obese) were included in this analysis. Proportion of time spent in PA, SED, and SED bouts were examined on school days (in-school and out-of-school) and non-school days via accelerometry. RESULTS: When comparing school time with non-school time on school days, children accumulated a higher proportion of light PA while in-school [49.3% (i.e. 5 minutes 18 seconds) vs. 39.6% (i.e. 3 hours 53 minutes), p=0.01]. While at school, the proportion of time spent in SED was less [46.3% (i.e. 3 hours 7 minutes) vs. 56.3% (i.e. 5 hours 32 minutes), p=0.01] and fewer children spent time engaged in prolonged sitting compared to out-of-school [uninterrupted SED for 30 minutes 52.4% (i.e. 11 children) vs. 85.7% (i.e. 18 children), p=0.02]. DISCUSSION: These findings suggest children are proportionately most active and least sedentary when at school, yet children only accumulated approximately 18 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA in this environment. TRANSLATION TO HEALTH EDUCATION PRACTICE: These preliminary findings can help to inform physical activity programming designed to promote life-long physical activity behaviors in children.","journal":"American Journal of Health Education","year":2020,"id":74836,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":7,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6175,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":391040,"name":"Erica Twardzik","orcid":"0000-0002-3514-2610","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":376929,"name":"Natalie Colabianchi","orcid":"0000-0002-7951-9475","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":376928,"name":"Rebecca E. Hasson","orcid":"0000-0003-4526-2656","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":391039,"name":"Lexie R. Beemer","orcid":"0000-0002-1064-1798","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":33,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T21:46:11.663457Z","pmid":"34239654","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}