Association between health-related physical fitness and sociodemographic factors in Brazilian children and adolescents
International Journal of Development Research
Association between health-related physical fitness and sociodemographic factors in Brazilian children and adolescents
Received 19th January, 2020; Received in revised form 21st February, 2020; Accepted 03rd March, 2020; Published online 29th April, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Joaquim Rangel Lucio da Penha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Adequate levels of health-related physical fitness form the basis for healthy growth and development in childhood and adolescence. This study aimed to describe and investigate possible associations between the components of health-related physical fitness, with sociodemographic factors of children and adolescents from seven to 14 years old. This is a descriptive, ex post facto study with a quantitative approach. The results showed a negative and significant association between sex and cardiorespiratory fitness (b = -327; p = .001) and sex with RML (b = -442; p = .001), ie, males had better results. indices in both components. On the other hand, positive and significant associations between age with BMI (b = 268; p = .001), age with Apcr (b = 361; p = 0.001) and age with RML (b = 275; p = .001) or that is, greater results were obtained with advancing chronological age. Concluding that in cardiorespiratory fitness and localized muscular endurance, a better level was found in males. Low levels of body mass index, as well as improved cardiorespiratory fitness and localized muscular endurance were associated with advancing chronological age for both sexes.
