Physical activity and spatial use during school break times in children aged four

Physical activity and spatial use during school break times in children aged four Romero-Ramos, O1., Fernandez-Rogriguez, E1., Merino-Marbán, R1., Gonzalez Campos, G.2., 1Universidad,de,Malaga,,Spain.,E5mail:,[email protected] 2Universidad,de,Sevilla,,Spain Purpose.Analyze quantity of physical activity and use of space during school break times according to gender, in four-year-old pupils. Methods.119 pupils participated in the study, with amean age of 4years (65 boys aged 3.9±0.81 years and 54 girls aged 4.05±0.75 years).To assess physical activity during school break time, Yamax Digiwalker SW-200 (YDSW200)pedometers were used and the behavioural mapping was performed using adirect observation form Results.Most of the time, the pupils tended to move in an undefined manner through zone 10 (multizone), recording atotal frequency of 1,034 entries and 517 minutes in this category.After this, the zones with the greatest frequency and usage by our infants are zone 8 (846 instances and 423 minutes) and 9 (594 instances and 297 minutes).This tendency towards continuous movement and multizone use, as well as the use of zone 8and 9can also be observed in the rate;rate being understood as the average number of occurrences of each category per unit of time Conclusions.In our results, there are no significant differences between gender and behavioural category DA, or the number of steps completed during break time (65.69±24.98 steps per minute in boys and 62.1±30.23 steps per minute in girls). The dominant behavioural category is Dynamic Activity (DA), which equates to 54%of school break time.This means that for slightly more than half the time, pupils are engaging in activities that involve physical stimuli, with the remaining time distributed between the other categories, which are less interesting from the point of view of health habits and physical activity.We believe it would be interesting to increase this physical practice time during breaks, as away of combating sedentary lifestyles in childhood, and high levels of overweightness. POSTER SESSION Physical activity in children and adolescents Panel label:B8 Abstract ID: 168 15th –17th November 2017, Zagreb, Croatia Figure. Selection frequencies of each zone according to gender In the case of the four behavioural categories assembled,the category with the highest frequency is DA (2,571 instances and 1285.5 minutes’ duration), followed by SA (1,313 instances and 656.5 minutes).The DA category’s rate is 0.018,while the SA category has arate of 0.009. Figure. Frequency and duration in each zone of the school playground Behaviour*category* Dc:*Minutes*duration* uc:*Rate* pi:*Relative*Frequency* DA# 1285,5# 0,0180345118# 0,5410353535# SA# 656,5# 0,0092101571# 0,2763047138# C# 232# 0,0032547699# 0,0976430976# P# 202# 0,0028338945# 0,085016835# # DA: Dynamic activity, SA: Static activity, C: Communication, P: Passivity Table. Descriptions of the behaviour category