The purpose of this study was to investigate gross and fine motor skill in overweight obese children compared with normal-weight peers. According international cut-off points for Body Mass Index (BMI) from Cole et al. (2000), all 117 participants (5–10 year) were classified as being normal-weight, overweight, or obese. Level assessed using the Movement Assessment Battery Children (MABC). Scores balance ( p < .01) ball skills .05) significantly better their counterparts. A similar trend...

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in gross motor coordination healthy-weight, overweight, and obese children different ages.Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected 954 Flemish primary school (500 girls, 454 boys) stratified consecutive age groups (5-7 years, 8-9 10-12 years). Weight status (healthy-weight, obese) defined according the International Obesity Task Force body mass index (BMI) cut-off points for children. Gross assessed by means...

Objective This longitudinal study investigated the interrelationship between children's weight status and level of gross motor coordination over time, taking baseline physical activity (PA) into account as a possible mediator. Methods Baseline measurements were collected in 2517 children (5-13 years, 52.8% boys), including (1) body height to calculate mass index (BMI) z-scores, (2) using Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK), (3) total PA estimated by questionnaire. At follow-up, 754...

ABSTRACT Purpose To assess injury risk in elite-level youth football (soccer) players based on anthropometric, motor coordination and physical performance measures with a machine learning model. Methods A total of 734 the U10 to U15 age categories (mean age, 11.7 ± 1.7 yr) from seven Belgian academies were prospectively followed during one season. Football exposure occurring injuries monitored continuously by academies’ coaching medical staff, respectively. Preseason anthropometric...

This study investigated differences in generic and soccer specific motor coordination, as well speed agility depending on age maturity elite youth players (U10-U15, N = 619). Measurements included body height, weight sitting height to estimate at peak velocity (APHV); three Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder subtests (i.e. jumping sideways (JS), moving (MS), balancing backwards (BB)) assess coordination; the UGent dribbling test for a 5m/30m sprint T-test agility, respectively. Age z-scores...

Within the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) framework, first major study aim was to investigate SDT tenets in an obese adolescent population by examining factor structure of Behavioural Regulation Exercise Questionnaire-2 (BREQ-2) and investigating associations between physical activity (PA) motivation adolescents. The second differences according adolescents' educational level, since lower educated are a sub-risk group for PA levels among third whether attending residential obesity treatment...

The goal of this study was to investigate differences in physical fitness and sports participation over 2 years children with relatively high, average, low motor competence. Physical gross coordination 501 between 6–10 were measured at baseline baseline+2 years. sample compromised age cohorts: 6.00–7.99 8.00–9.99 An sex-specific quotient testing used subdivide these into (MQ < P33), average (P33 ≤ MQ P66) high ≥ competence groups. Measures obtained through a activity questionnaire 278 the...

The use of the short form Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK3) to evaluate children's and adolescents' motor competence (MC) is increasing. When combined with an alternating one-handed catching throwing ball task, assessing eye-hand coordination (EHC), it has been shown that different aspects skills are adequately covered in one compact KTK3+ test battery, studied 6- 10-year-old children. present study aimed validate battery provide contemporary MC normative values for boys girls from...

The prevalence and level of overweight in childhood is rapidly increasing. One potential contributor to the rise a decline physical activity (PA). purpose this study was compare levels patterns PA related personality normal-weight (NW) (OW) 6- 10-yr-old children. Subjects were grouped into OW (N = 59, BMI 24.2 ± 4.8 kg/m2) or NW 61, 15.7 1.5 according International Obesity Task Force cut-offs. assessed by accelerometry. Parents filled questionnaire on sedentary behaviour their child (born...

One of the driving factors dietary overconsumption throughout last decennia is increase food portion sizes. Larger portions induce higher daily energy intake, so reducing size may reduce intake excess calories. However, real-life studies about effects reduction are lacking. Therefore, this study examined effect a French fries on consumption, plate waste, satiety and caloric during subsequent afternoon among university students employees in Belgian on-campus restaurant setting. Moreover,...

Background: The development of childhood motor competence demonstrates a high degree inter-individual variation. Some children's levels increase whilst others' remain unchanged or even decrease over time. However, few studies have examined this developmental change in across and little is known on the influencing factors). Aim: Using latent growth curve modeling (LGCM), present longitudinal study aimed to investigate two-year timespan examine potential influence baseline weight status...

This study evaluated the short-term effectiveness of a multidisciplinary residential obesity treatment program by describing changes in body weight, related measures, and gross motor co-ordination. Secondarily, it was examined to what extent amount relative weight loss achieved overweight obese (OW/OB) participants explained projected improvement Thirty-six OW/OB children (aged 10.5 ± 1.4 years, 12 girls 24 boys) were recruited at Zeepreventorium VZW (De Haan, Belgium), where they followed...

With the increasing rate of patent application filings, automated classification is rising economic importance. This article investigates how can be improved by using different representations documents. Using Linguistic Classification System (LCS), we compare impact adding statistical phrases (in form bigrams) and linguistic two dependency formats) to standard bag-of-words text representation on a subset 532,264 English abstracts from CLEF-IP 2010 corpus. In contrast previous findings with...