Abstract The objective of the study was to determine proportion preschool children under 5 years old meeting 24-h World Health Organisation guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. Another examine association between health-related quality life these among in Singapore. Parents completed an online anonymous SMALL Q ® (Surveillance digital Media hAbits earLy chiLdhood Questionnaire) children’s Meeting WHO meant, within a period, (i) having at least 180 min activity (ii)...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the lives of pre-primary school children in Singapore where increased infection rates prompted lockdown measures that altered children’s daily routines. This study aimed to evaluate impact on lifestyle behaviours and health quality 3134 aged 5 6 years across three periods: pre-COVID, lockdown, endemicity. Data were collected using Surveillance Digital Media Habits Early Childhood Questionnaire (SMALLQ®) measure on- off-screen media habits...

Introduction Research on early childhood caregiver feeding practices and eating behaviors is limited, especially within Asian populations. This study examined these across key domains of variety, autonomy, mealtime setting timing, stratified by three age groups: 0 to <7 months, 7 <13 13 <36 months. Methods A cross-sectional survey 1,307 caregivers from a multi-ethnic population in Singapore captured demographic data, practices, child behaviors, caregivers’ knowledge,...

The 24-hour movement guidelines (24-h MG) recommend behaviors (physical activity, screen time, sleep) to aid appropriate physical and mental development in early childhood. This research examined parents’ digital media habits (DMH), engagement (DME), awareness (DMA) among parents relation their preschool-aged children’s 24-h MG Japan identified compared the modifiable determinants of adherence urban rural regions. cross-sectional study included 867 participants data were obtained from...

This comparative–descriptive multi-national research examined the screen time and playtime of preschool children aged 1–6 years before during COVID-19 pandemic. Parents reported on play habits preschool-aged weekday weekends using a questionnaire lifestyle their children. Results indicated significant difference in weekend pandemic (screen time: 1.91 ± 2.40 vs. 2.16 2.60 h; playtime: 3.55 2.49 4.11 2.58 h, both p < 0.05), but pandemic, only weekday–weekend was significantly different 2.87...

Digital media engagement in families Singaporean society is increasing at an unprecedented pace.Limited research the last five years Singapore shows that young children experience significant amounts of screen time from television, computers and other forms mobile digital devices, even before primary school.For children, use can aid with learning, but its overuse has inimical effects on learning health.As increases faster than impact, it essential to develop a tool monitor changes habits...

The research aims were to examine the relationships between parent and child digital media use describe characteristics of top bottom quartiles in meeting 24 h integrated guidelines for sleep, physical activity, sedentary behaviour. Parent-reported on- off-screen habits quality life children collected from 1481 parents preschool aged 2–5 years 2019. Significant detected (weekday, r = 0.274; weekend, 0.421, p < 0.05) with no sex difference daily (p > 0.05). Age first exposure fixed...

The proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) has changed the way we live this also implications on how it is used for learning entertainment. However, digital media are more often seen as gateways to entertainment attraction a very strong one. This true adults children including pre-schoolers. online survey research investigated parents' attitudes concerns towards their pre-schoolers' use in Singapore. More specifically, explored 'what' 'why' questions at home; what...

This study examined children’s adherence to the Singapore Integrated 24-Hour Activity Guidelines for Early Childhood in infants, toddlers and preschoolers aged 0–6 years. A total of 901 caregivers, comprising 219 379 toddlers, 303 preschoolers, provided information regarding their physical activity (PA), screen viewing time (SVT), sleep durations on both weekdays weekends. Meeting 24-hour integrated guidelines was defined as follows: infants ≥ 30 minutes per day tummy or floor-based play;...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed Indonesians' behaviors and had an impact on many facets of daily life. People's lives are becoming increasingly dependent digital technologies, which is a phenomenon with conflicting effects people's health happiness. This cross-sectional study focused one such influence, namely, how the shift from period before to during affected children's playtime sleep duration. As part multicenter study, 618 adult caregivers (parents, family members, or babysitters)...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidelines for 24-h physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour and sleep young children. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) been linked to a lower likelihood of meeting these guidelines. outbreak the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) raised concerns about children's opportunities meet study focused on prevalence WHO's screen time (ST), PA among 2-6-year-old children, in association with family SES, before COVID-19 2019, during pandemic 2020...

Parental Educational Attainment and children's 24-h behaviors significantly influenced hyperactivity symptoms. This study aimed to examine the mediating role of behavior changes due COVID-19 pandemic between index. It also investigate associations Children's Physical Activity, digital media use, sleep, index two clusters Attainments. The goal was provide targeted behavioral optimization recommendations for caregivers reduce risk hyperactivity.

Studies show that the quality of life (QoL) preschoolers is closely related to physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB), and sleep (SL). Yet many researchers looked at these 24-h movement behaviours as are independent one another when examining association QoL with behaviours. The main purpose present study was describe temporal trends in PA, SB, SL concomitant children. Annual cross-sectional data on 8045 Singaporean were collected from 2018 2021. Compositional analysis, linear...

The main purpose of the research was to describe daily screen media habits and non-screen like indoor outdoor play, sleep preschool children aged 2 6 years from Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Finland using a content-validated online questionnaire (SMALLQ®) unsupervised cluster analysis. Unsupervised analysis on 5809 parent-reported weekday weekend four countries resulted in seven emergent clusters. Cluster (n = 1288) or Early-screen media, media-lite moderate-to-vigorous physical...

We investigated whether a 4-min sprint interval training (SIT) protocol had an acute effect (15 min after) on improving alertness, mood, and memory recall in female students. Sixty-three children 131 adolescents were randomly assigned to either SIT or control (CON) group by the class Physical Education (PE) teachers. The intervention was delivered twice week for 3 weeks. participants performed three, 20-s ‘all-out’ effort sprints interspersed with 60-s intervals of walking while CON sat down...

This study investigates the effects of different types physical activity (PA) on fitness (PF) young children in Japan, with a particular focus how substituting sedentary behavior (SB) active behaviors influences PF. We conducted cross-sectional analysis 1843 participants aged 3-6 years from northeastern Japan. Using triaxial accelerometers, we quantified PA, and PF was assessed via standardized tests. The innovative application isotemporal substitution modeling (ISM) allowed us to analyze...

Abstract Background The Singapore integrated 24-hour activity guide for children and adolescents was introduced to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, diet, enhance metabolic health prevent noncommunicable diseases. To support the dissemination implementation of these recommendations, a user-friendly online resource created help adopt behaviors in Singapore. Objective This study aimed assess acceptability adoption healthier change...

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Adolescents today are growing up in an era dominated by digital media such that increased screen use may increase sedentary behaviour, displace physical activity, and lead to higher calorie intake cause sleep disturbances, potentially increasing health risks later years. In recent times, there has been a paradigm shift of public guidelines integration activity guidelines. For example, the Singapore Integrated 24-Hour Activity Guidelines include guideline...

There are limited data on how the lifestyle behaviours of school-aged children in Singapore fare against Integrated 24-hr Activity Guidelines. One hundred and thirty-eight ages 9 to 13 years self-reported their recreational screen time, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), night-time sleep duration, health-related Quality Life (HRQoL) a survey package. Their were then benchmarked Guidelines recommendations, specifically, (i) at least 1 hr/day MVPA, (ii) no more than 2 7-9 sleep....

This study aimed to examine the prevalence of children and adolescents in meeting The Singapore Integrated 24-Hour Activity Guidelines for Children Adolescents whether number guidelines met was associated Quality Life (QoL). Parents youths aged 7 18 years completed an online questionnaire consisting Singaporean Lifestyle Questionnaire Pediatric (PedsQL™) 4.0 Inventory. reported on physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB), recreational screen time (ST), sleep, dietary habits, as well...

Highlights More research is available on the on- and off-screen behaviors of typically developing children but substantially less these among with developmental disabilities (CwDD). As CwDD have different lifestyle needs profiles than children, there exists an unmet need for a time-use questionnaire which examines screen-viewing time, physical activity sleep duration CwDD. This behavioral report presents pilot results in Singapore using validated called Parent-surveillance digital media...

This study aimed to examine the prevalence of adherence 24 h activity guidelines in children and adolescents from Asia-Pacific cities. In 1139 aged 5–18 years, moderate-to-vigorous physical (MVPA), screen viewing time (SVT), sleep duration, child weight, height, sex, age were parent-reported. Descriptive statistics used assess number met, by city sex. Prevalence meeting all three was low across countries (1.8–10.3%) (p &lt; 0.05). Children Thiruvananthapuram, India had highest [10.3% (95%...