Physical fitness surveillance and monitoring systems inventory for children and adolescents: a sco** review with a global perspective

J Brazo-Sayavera, DR Silva, JJ Lang, GR Tomkinson… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Surveillance of health-related physical fitness can improve decision-making and intervention
strategies promoting health for children and adolescents. However, no study has …

European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 …

FB Ortega, B Leskošek, JJ Gil-Cosano… - British journal of sports …, 2023 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives (1) To develop reference values for health-related fitness in European children
and adolescents aged 6–18 years that are the foundation for the web-based, open-access …

Prioritizing a research agenda on built environments and physical activity: a twin panel Delphi consensus process with researchers and knowledge users

SA Prince, JJ Lang, M de Groh, H Badland… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background The growth of urban dwelling populations globally has led to rapid increases of
research and policy initiatives addressing associations between the built environment and …

Establishment of health related physical fitness evaluation system for school adolescents aged 12–16 in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study

SMZH Hamdani, J Zhuang, SG Hadier… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The decline in adolescent physical fitness is a significant global public health
concern, and Pakistan is no exception. The country's absence of a health-related physical …

Childhood Physical Fitness as a Predictor of Cognition and Mental Health in Adolescence: The PANIC Study

EA Haapala, MH Leppänen, H Skog, DR Lubans… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background Cognitive and mental health problems are highly prevalent in adolescence.
While higher levels of physical fitness may mitigate these problems, there is a lack of long …

Secular trends in the physical fitness of Brazilian youth: Evidence that fitness is declining for the majority but not for a fit minority

AM Nevill, MJ Duncan, A Gaya… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background There has been a decline in children's physical fitness in recent decades. Such
concerns are largely based on evidence from North America, Europe, and Asia. The current …

Back to 'normal'? BMI, physical fitness and health-related quality of life of children from North East England before, during and after the COVID-19 lockdowns

L Basterfield, B Galna, NL Burn, H Batten… - Journal of sports …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We assessed whether changes in children's body mass index (BMI), physical fitness and
health-related quality of life observed post-2020 United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown …

[HTML][HTML] The Youth Fitness International Test (YFIT) battery for monitoring and surveillance among children and adolescents: A modified Delphi consensus project with …

FB Ortega, K Zhang, C Cadenas-Sanchez… - Journal of Sport and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence is associated with a variety of
health outcomes and is a powerful marker of current and future health. However …

Cardiorespiratory fitness has declined among French children since 1999, although the decline appears to be getting smaller

J Vanhelst, JJ Lang, D Matelot, F Carré… - … journal of medicine …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a strong marker of current and future health.
The aim of this study was to assess the national temporal trends in CRF for French children …

Secular trends in physical fitness of rural Chinese children and adolescents aged 7–18 years from 1985 to 2019

C Li, AY Taerken, Q Li, A Selimu, H Wang - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the secular trends in physical fitness of
Chinese rural children and adolescents aged 7–18 from 1985 to 2019. The speed, muscular …