Survey of the Adequacy of Brazilian Children and Adolescents to the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Natália Molleri, Saint Clair Gomes Junior, Daniele Marano and Andrea Zin ()
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Natália Molleri: National Institute of Women’s, Child’s and Adolescent’s Health Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro 22250-020, Brazil
Saint Clair Gomes Junior: National Institute of Women’s, Child’s and Adolescent’s Health Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro 22250-020, Brazil
Daniele Marano: National Institute of Women’s, Child’s and Adolescent’s Health Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro 22250-020, Brazil
Andrea Zin: National Institute of Women’s, Child’s and Adolescent’s Health Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro 22250-020, Brazil

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 9, 1-11

Abstract: The 24-Hour Movement Guidelines provide specific recommendations on movement behaviors for children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to verify the adequacy of children and adolescents to the guidelines for moderate to vigorous physical activity, recreational screen time, and sleep duration, and the overall adequacy to the guidelines, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted with parents or guardians of children or adolescents from different regions of Brazil using a digital interview form including sociodemographic characteristics of families, moderate to vigorous physical activity, recreational screen time, and sleep duration before and during the pandemic. Statistically significant variation was observed in both groups in relation to moderate to vigorous physical activity and recreational screen time between the two periods evaluated. Overall adequacy to the guidelines before the pandemic was 19.28% for children from Group 1 (0–5 years old) and 39.50% for those from Group 2 (6 to 17 years old). During the pandemic, it corresponded to 3.58% in Group 1 and 4.94% in Group 2 ( p -value between periods ≤0.001). This study showed the significant impact of pandemic restrictions on reducing overall compliance and physical activity, and increasing screen time among Brazilian children and adolescents.

Keywords: guideline adherence; exercise; screen time; sleep; infant; preschool; child; adolescent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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