Well-Being, Physical Fitness, and Health Profile of 2,203 Danish Girls Aged 10-12 in Relation to Leisure-time Sports Club Activity-With Special Emphasis on the Five Most Popular SportsShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Strength and conditioning journal, ISSN 1524-1602, E-ISSN 1533-4295, Vol. 36, no 8, p. 2283-2290Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study investigated the relationship between leisure-time sports club activities and well-being as well as physical health parameters in 10-12-year-old Danish girls. Two thousand two hundred three girls took part in the study, which included questionnaires on participation in leisure-time sports clubs, well-being, Yo-Yo intermittent recovery level 1 children's test, long jump, balance tests, body composition, blood pressure (BP), and resting heart rate (RHR). Data were analyzed according to whether the girls participated in leisure-time sport and according to the 5 most frequently reported sports. Girls enrolled in leisure-time sports had higher physical well-being (49.3 ± 8.6 vs. 45.2 ± 8.3), psychological well-being (50.4 ± 9.0 vs. 49.4 ± 9.8), experienced more peer and social support (50.2 ± 10.0 vs. 48.9 ± 10.7), and perceived a more positive school environment (52.5 ± 8.0 vs. 50.5 ± 9.3), as well as showing higher Yo-Yo (+39%), long jump (+10%), and balance performance (+15%) than girls not involved in sport clubs. The girls active in sports clubs had higher relative muscle mass (+5%), lower fat percentage (-11%), body mass index (-5%), RHR (-3.4 b·min-1), and diastolic BP (-1.4 mm Hg) compared with girls not involved in sport (p<0.05). Girls who played soccer showed higher aerobic fitness compared with inactive girls (+67%), dancers (+39%), swimmers (+38%), and gymnasts (+16%). Gymnasts had a lower fat percentage than inactive girls (-19%), team handballers (-10%), swimmers (-12%), and soccer players (-4%). Girls participating in club-based leisure-time sports showed higher well-being and better fitness and health profiles than girls not involved in any sports club activities. Girls involved in soccer had better aerobic fitness and gymnasts a lower fat percentage. Copyright © 2020 National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022. Vol. 36, no 8, p. 2283-2290
Keywords [en]
Yo-Yo IR1C, long jump, balance, body composition, KIDSCREEN-27, sport participation
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48928DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000003819ISI: 000834988000032PubMedID: 32991507Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85135421247OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48928DiVA, id: diva2:1726339
Note
Funding: Nordea-fonden, the Danish Football Association (DBU), and Aase and Ejnar Danielsens Foundation.
2023-01-122023-01-122025-10-01Bibliographically approved