Adolescents' Physical Activity in Education Systems Varying in the Number of Weekly Physical Education Lessons

Autor/inn/en	Groffik, Dorota; Mitáš, Josef; Jakubec, Lukáš; Svozil, Zbynek; Frömel, Karel
Titel	Adolescents' Physical Activity in Education Systems Varying in the Number of Weekly Physical Education Lessons
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 91 (2020) 4, S.551-561 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Groffik, Dorota) ORCID (Mitáš, Josef) ORCID (Jakubec, Lukáš) ORCID (Svozil, Zbynek) ORCID (Frömel, Karel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2019.1688754
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Secondary School Students; Physical Activity Level; Physical Education; Comparative Education; Health Promotion; Guidelines; Gender Differences; Metabolism; Recess Breaks; Physical Fitness; Foreign Countries; Habit Formation; Czech Republic; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sekundarschüler; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Richtlinien; Geschlechterkonflikt; Stoffwechsel; Aktive Pause; Leistungsfähigkeit; Ausland; Tschechische Republik; Polen
Abstract	Purpose: School physical activity (SPA) is a significant component of daily PA. We investigated differences in PA between boys and girls in two differing education systems--Poland and the Czech Republic--which have four and two physical education lessons (PELs) per week, respectively. Method: This project was conducted from 2012-2016 at 17 Polish and 23 Czech secondary schools (N = 921; mean age = 16.2 ± 0.7 years). ActiTrainer accelerometers were used to monitor participants' PA and heart rate during school days. Weekly PA was measured using pedometers. Subjective levels of weekly PA were self-reported on the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-long form. Results: The Polish education system enabled adolescents to meet the recommendations for moderate-to-vigorous PA more likely than did the Czech system. SPA also represented a higher portion of daily PA in the Polish (vs. Czech system); however, the differences in total daily step count between Polish and Czech adolescents were non-significant. SPA accounted for 30-37% of the daily PA (as measured by step count) of Polish girls (23-30% of Czech girls) and 28-39% of Polish boys (25-37% of Czech boys). Conclusions: Participation in PELs was associated with a higher rate of meeting SPA recommendations in both countries. Compared with the Czech Republic, more PELs in the Polish education system was associated with increased daily vigorous PA and a greater portion of SPA in daily PA. Differences in overall daily and weekly moderate-to-vigorous PA between Polish and Czech adolescents were non-significant. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01