Bridging the relationship between physical exercise and mental health in adolescents based on network analysis

PsyCh Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(5), С. 835 - 848

Опубликована: Апрель 16, 2024

Abstract Although physical exercise has been recommended as a useful means of enhancing the mental health adolescents, exact mechanisms through which plays role are unclear. Both and complex concepts with multiple facets, traditional methods may constrain manifestations their mapping relationships. This research aimed to find bridging connections between health. Mental behaviors were assessed using Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL‐90) Adolescent Physical Activity Questionnaire (PAQ‐A) in 9072 Chinese respectively. Network analysis was utilized construct health‐physical network analyze relationships individual symptoms. Core nodes identified based on expected influence (EI) bridge (BEI). Gender differences also examined. The results revealed specific distinct pathways (e.g., winter sports–obsessive‐compulsive symptoms, sports–phobia). For both males females, anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, ball sports, evening activity most central symptoms/behaviors, reflecting relative significance respective associations. highest BEI obsessive‐compulsive symptoms education, showing negative associations other community. Furthermore, male group, somatization sports stood out positive nodes. Conversely, female sensitivity games These findings illuminate linking health, supporting implementation more elaborate way.

Язык: Английский

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Educational Research and Innovation

Educational research and innovation, Год журнала: 2009, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Ноя. 10, 2009

The nature of childhood and how we view children has changed tremendously in the 21st century.Cultural shifts, global mega trends technological developments have shifted what looks like types roles can do take modern societies.Children are no longer seen as passive beings need protection future citizens, but rather citizens today.They increasingly autonomous agents change who play important shaping current democracies.These changes beg question: does child empowerment mean today implications for OECD education systems well-being?The authors this report seek to answer question by exploring changing childhood, delving into some potential facilitators or barriers empowerment.They propose a definition empowerment, suggesting that empowered opportunity ability act on issues relevant them, learn making mistakes, key contributors democracy.This at various ways which support empowerment.This ranges from providing them with civic skills knowledge effectively participate democracy, supporting their social, emotional physical well-being, reducing inequalities threaten vulnerable marginalised groups.It children's lives, including they interact media digital environment, be used identity development, well-being self-expression new ways.By presenting state art literature, outlining examples promising policy practice countries, volume provides guidance insights work together range actors while helping realise rights.Child is recognised goal priority governments around OECD.Many countries taken effective steps realising goal.However still far go ensuring all future.WHAT DOES CHILD EMPOWERMENT MEAN TODAY?© 2024 Executive summaryEmpowering active participants society emerged critical aim agendas across OECD.Yet, achieving simple.Set against backdrop way understands role child, well opportunities challenges posed publication delves meaning explores its systems.By defining concepts examining valuable empowering children, amidst declining activity, increased stress anxiety, COVID-19, landscape persistent inequalities.This takes stock these broad themes often repeated rarely articulated call empower children.This centres it's analysis three core opportunities. Enhanced well-beingGood things happen when them.Child enhances self-esteem leadership skills, nurturing competent, confident members society.When done authentic crafting school policies practices, tend better suited contribute positively climates social cohesion. Better makingChild an essential educational within though it lacks clear implementation strategies.Giving greater empowers actively decisions contributing unique perspectives.Actively participating decision-making processes both age-appropriate supports personal development ensures societal practices reflect needs perspectives. 9WHAT Current conditions may hindering empowermentEmpowering only possible if makers directly, effectively, tackle number challenges.This requires more attention paid establishing sufficient baseline such health, literacy, access necessary resources.At present, activity levels among insufficient many experience increasing loneliness feelings anxiety.The environment offers wide arenas yet engagement activism, debate peer communities remains modest minority engaging behaviours.Part could related lack literacy distinguish fact opinion.This skill gap crucial because influences confidence content critically, make informed decisions, fundamental aspect empowerment.While platforms powerful tools engagement, not fully harnessed.Moreover, poorer regions lower socio-economic backgrounds face significant accessing also leveraging (often limited) seize managing risks harm. Addressing cultural systemic changeOECD been working hard years wealth research, interventions exists help, documented publication.However, navigating multifaceted shift mindsets those systems, perform children.Shifting responsibilities days than protection, met apprehension adults.Including stakeholders rethink might traditionally order avoid common pitfalls tokenism, manipulation, decoration simply recreating adult structures trying fit structures.Adapting societies schools engage stakeholders, ensure equitable representation, particularly disadvantaged groups, requiring uphold rights safety resource-intensive.It buy-in challenging get right.Structural schools, high staff turnover terms teachers leadership, further complicate goals children.Being educator easy task, high-quality professional opportunities.Greater systematic partnerships external help lighten load, instance provision consistent mental health support.Yet, between left up individual institutions.Schools require dedicated, system-wide mechanisms partnerships.Lastly, inequalities, influenced geographical factors, remain barrier, necessitating focused research equity inclusion comprehensive approach must transform emphasise address disparities, enhance support, expand efforts, thereby creating ecosystem where every thrive our shared future.Education part co-ordinated, whole-of-society promote inside out classroom.This means government meaningfully participation.This necessitates establishment (or strengthening) legislative frameworks, strategies evaluation mandate government.WHAT 2024Empowering exercise agency carefully balancing protect unacceptably risk allowing management strategies.This balance constantly shifting, over course gradually acquire independence autonomy caregivers.An optimal enables older develop healthy sense self-reliance freedom well, family, friends community harm too high.Crucially, source come others exercising agency.As Gottschalk Borhan (2023[4]) remind us, critique use term agency, due assumption much literature inherently positive problematic open manipulation.Sometimes different forms odds each other.Encouraging involvement parents countries.Additionally, leaders positioned actors.But, Burns (2020[3]) ask, whose voice counts views aligned?Having thought out, innovative collaborative models bring parents, communities, themselves most presented century, fullest, flourish change.WHAT Box 1.2. What mobilisation?Over past two decades diverse body understand increase evidence through intentional process known mobilisation.It evidence-informed contributes decision learning.Crucially, mobilisation about just disseminating findings via accessible communication channels.Although important, there now substantive showing fostering interaction building relationships people organisations, incentivising activating parts system evidence, required (OECD, 2022[9]).Social tool making.When deliberately structured, interactions colleagues organisations integrate activities stimulate learning.They block culture 2023[10]).A strong one it.This agreement questions mutual understanding, attitudes, dedicated time space individuals (Langer, Tripney Gough, 2016[11]).WHAT This chapter nature.It today, recognising holders acknowledging exercise.Childhood conceptualisations dynamic, broader shifts.With advancement dialogues, being included processes.This outlines affect participate.

Язык: Английский

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The impacts of physical activity on psychological and behavioral problems, and changes in physical activity, sleep and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic in preschoolers, children, and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 11

Опубликована: Март 9, 2023

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the level of physical activity (PA). However, little is known about its effect on health outcomes. Methods Articles without language restrictions published from database inception through March 16, 2022, were retrieved using CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline, PubMed, and PsycINFO databases. High-quality articles assessing PA psychological behavioral problems. Additionally, PA, QoL, and/or sleep problems before during included. data regarding or involving non-general populations excluded. PRISMA MOOSE guidelines followed. Data quality selected was assessed Newcastle-Ottawa Scale GRADE approach. pooled a random-effects model sensitivity analysis if heterogenicity high ( I 2 ≥ 50%). relationship between problems; changes in sleeping patterns preschoolers, children, adolescents investigated. A meta-analysis conducted; odds ratios (ORs), mean differences (MD), standardized MDs (SMDs) calculated. Results Thirty-four 66,857 participants results showed an overall significant protective (OR = 0.677; 95% CI 0.630, 0.728; p -value <0.001; 59.79%). This also subgroup children 0.690; 0.632, 0.752; 58.93%) 0.650; 0.570, 0.741; 60.85%); however, no preschoolers collected. In addition, time spent significantly decreased by 23.2 min per day (95% −13.5, −32.9; 99.82%). Moreover, decrease QoL (SMD −0.894, −1.180, −0.609, <0.001, 96.64%). there difference duration (MD 0.01 h day, −0.027, 0.225; 0.125; 98.48%). Conclusion During pandemic, less contributed to poor quality. increases are associated with reduced occurrences Implementing recovery plans address essential.

Язык: Английский

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Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors in 2021 and Changes from 2019 to 2021 Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2021

MMWR Supplements, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 72(1), С. 75 - 83

Опубликована: Апрель 27, 2023

The fall of 2021 was the first school semester to begin with widespread in-person learning since COVID-19 pandemic began. Understanding dietary and physical activity behaviors adolescents during this time can provide insight into potential health equity gaps programmatic needs in schools communities. This report uses data from national Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted among a nationally representative sample U.S. public private students grades 9-12 update estimates high overall by sex race ethnicity. In addition, 2-year comparisons (2019 versus 2021) these were examined. 2021, daily consumption fruits, vegetables, breakfast past 7 days remained low decreased specific disparities ethnicity 2019 2021. prevalence attending education classes daily, exercising strengthen muscles on ≥3 days/week (i.e., met guideline for muscle-strengthening activity), playing at least one sports team 2021; whereas being physically active ≥60 minutes/day all aerobic activity) meeting both guidelines but did not change. These findings underscore need strategies increase healthy recovery phase longer term.

Язык: Английский

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Physical Activity in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Scoping Review

Healthcare, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 11(11), С. 1553 - 1553

Опубликована: Май 25, 2023

Physical activity has benefits for health, but many adolescents are inactive. However, video games such as Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) have grown in popularity a leisure among young people, allowing them to manipulate objects virtual environments increasing the practice of physical activity. The evidence indicates that interest through IVR is greater than traditional methods, and different experiences been reported. few studies indicate sample evaluated, effects found, or instruments used. Due this, aim this study identify publications referring activity, characterize them, present obtained main findings. For guidelines described PRISMA-ScR scoping reviews were applied. After use inclusion exclusion criteria, eight articles included. Results show regarding physiological outcomes, perceptual variables, enjoyment, psychological IVR. Additionally, devices their prescriptions explored. It concluded there from scientific community IVR, well its application maintenance active habits. This important it positions method can be more experiential effective way develop maintain healthy lifestyle.

Язык: Английский

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Dietary Changes of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

Journal of Nutrition, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 154(4), С. 1376 - 1403

Опубликована: Фев. 24, 2024

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the lives of millions and disrupted countless more worldwide. Simply living through had drastic effects on health citizens. Diet, an important aspect health, been uniquely affected by pandemic, although these changes have not sufficiently studied among youth.

Язык: Английский

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Impact of home quarantine on physical fitness of school-aged children in Xi’an during COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 25, 2024

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented global challenges. This study intends to investigate changes in physical fitness students aged 6-22 during and assess how lockdown period affected these markers.

Язык: Английский

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Adolescent physical activity during school days: a comparative study before and after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13

Опубликована: Март 14, 2025

Physical activity (PA) during the school day is crucial for health and well-being of adolescents. This study examines impact COVID-19 pandemic on youth PA patterns to better understand these changes provide guidelines programming. Differences in within specific segments were examined before after using Youth Activity Profile questionnaire. Participants included 956 boys 1,317 girls from 21 high schools. The involved 12 Czech 9 Polish schools 8 pandemic. Both exhibited significantly less transportation reduced compared before. Additionally, physically active breaks, had notably physical education lessons. disrupted habit regular days, particularly evident decline school. confirms a significant difference adolescents various students return following restrictions. Promoting achievement recommendations comprehensive programs should be an important part policy public promotion

Язык: Английский

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Nutrition, Exercise, and Sleep: Impacts on Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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COVID-19 Stay-at-home mandates impacts daily ambulatory bout intensity and duration in elementary school-aged children: A wearable sensor based analysis

Gait & Posture, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 111, С. 126 - 131

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2024

Язык: Английский

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