Children's Time Use and Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Early Childhood Education and Care in Finland

Autor/inn/en	Kyhälä, Anna-Liisa; Reunamo, Jyrki; Valtonen, Juha O.
Titel	Children's Time Use and Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Early Childhood Education and Care in Finland
Quelle	In: South African Journal of Childhood Education, 11 (2021) 1, Artikel 933 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kyhälä, Anna-Liisa) ORCID (Reunamo, Jyrki) ORCID (Valtonen, Juha O.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2223-7674
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Child Behavior; Time Management; Physical Activity Level; Physical Activities; Play; Games; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Zeitmanagement; Spiel; Game; Spiele; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Finnland
Abstract	Background: The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is crucial in the implementation of the physical activity recommendations during long ECEC days. Young children should engage in 180 minutes of physical activity spread throughout the day, including 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). To attain the goal more information is needed on children's time use and physical activity (PA) in children's activities. Aim: The purposes of this quantitative observational study were twofold: (1) to examine children's time use and (2) to describe which children's activities best generate physical activity, specifically MVPA, in ECEC. Setting: Altogether, 2879 Finnish children, aged from 1- to 6-years, participated in this study. Methods: The data of 57 881 observations were analysed using cross-tabulation and a z-test. Results: "Daily routines" (e.g. eating, dressing, napping and transition), "task or seatwork" and "material play" accounted for almost 70% of children's sedentary behaviour and less than 10% of MVPA. The best MVPA generators were "physical activities" (that generated 57.4% of all MVPA in boys vs. 62.8% in girls, respectively), "rule play" (11% in boys vs. 6.7% in girls) and "role play" (10.1% in boys vs. 9.9% in girls) as well as "action not allowed" (3.3% in boys vs. 1.2% in girls). Conclusions: Educators should integrate "physical activities," "rule play" and "role play" more in ECEC day to support the realisation of the recommendations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01