Recognition of 16-18-Year-Old Adolescents for Guiding Physical Activity Interventions: A Cross-Sectional Study

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作者
Bhatti, Sunbal N. [1 ,2 ]
Watkin, Emma [2 ]
Butterfill, James [3 ]
Li, Jian-Mei [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Reading, Sch Biol Sci, Reading RG6 6AS, Berks, England
[2] Farnborough Coll Technol, Fac Acad Studies, Farnborough GU14 6SB, Hants, England
[3] North Kent Coll, Sports Coaching Dept, Gravesend DA12 2JJ, Kent, England
关键词
adolescence; health; obesity; physical activity; sedentariness; cardiovascular disease risk; HEALTH;
D O I
10.3390/ijerph17145002
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Adolescence is a rapid life stage requiring special attention wherein personal autonomy is developed to govern independent lifestyles. Unhealthy lifestyles are integral to prevailing adolescent physical inactivity patterns. Understudied 16-18-year-olds were investigated to establish physical activity prevalences and influencing health-related lifestyle factors. Adolescents were recruited randomly across 2017-2019 from Farnborough College of Technology and North Kent College, UK. Demographic and health-related lifestyle information were gathered anonymously and analysed using SAS (R) 9.4 software. Among the 414 adolescents included (48.3% male and 51.7% female), the mean (standard deviation (SD)) age was 16.9 (0.77). Approximately 15.2% smoked and 20.8% were overweight/obese. There were 54.8% perceiving themselves unfit and 33.3% spent >4 h/day on leisure-time screen-based activity. Around 80.4% failed to meet the recommended fruit/vegetable daily intake and 90.1% failed to satisfy UK National Physical Activity Guidelines, particularly females (p= 0.0202). Physical activity levels were significantly associated with gender, body mass index, smoking status, leisure sedentary screen-time, fruit/vegetable consumption and fitness perceptions. Those who were female, overweight/obese, non-smoking, having poor fitness perceptions, consuming low fruit/vegetables and engaging in excess screen-based sedentariness were the groups with lowest physical activity levels. Steering physical activity-oriented health interventions toward these at-risk groups in colleges may reduce the UK's burden of adolescent obesity.
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