Fitness as a Mediator of the Enhancement of Quality of Life after a 6-Months Exercise Program

Autor/inn/en	Perez-Sousa, Miguel A.; Olivares, Pedro R.; Garcia-Hermoso, Antonio; Gusi, Narcis
Titel	Fitness as a Mediator of the Enhancement of Quality of Life after a 6-Months Exercise Program
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 91 (2020) 1, S.24-33 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Perez-Sousa, Miguel A.) ORCID (Olivares, Pedro R.) ORCID (Garcia-Hermoso, Antonio)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2019.1645939
Schlagwörter	Health Related Fitness; Quality of Life; Children; Obesity; Physical Health; Program Length; Human Body; Psychomotor Skills; Physical Activities; Muscular Strength; Interpersonal Competence; Play + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitssport; Gesundheitstraining; Lebensqualität; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adipositas; Gesundheitszustand; Menschlicher Körper; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Muskelkraft; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Spiel
Abstract	Purpose: The study aimed to test whether improvement in fitness components, mediates the changes in Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) after exercise intervention in overweight and obese children. Methods and design: 170 obese and overweight children (121 exercise group and 49 control group) participated in a public exercise program based on sports practice for 6 months, 2 h per week. Anthropometry, physical fitness, and HRQoL were measured. Magnitude-based inferences and Cohen's effect size were performed to analyze the program effect. To know which physical fitness components mediated the improvement on children's HRQoL, multiple mediation analyses were performed. Results: the analysis showed a moderate effect on some fitness components and a moderate and small effect on HRQoL. The improvement of agility or cardiorespiratory fitness showed a significant indirect effect on the enhancements in some HRQoL dimensions. Conclusion: after a 6-months exercise program in overweight and obese children, all physical fitness components improved, being responsible for the improvement of the HRQoL, agility and cardiorespiratory fitness. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01