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iCook 4-H: Report of Accelerometer Derived Physical Activity in 9-10 Year Old Children from Baseline, Post, and Follow-up

Abstract

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<p>To examine the relationship between baseline, post, and follow-up accelerometer derived physical activity (PA) in 9-10 year old children participating in iCook 4-H, a 16-week, 5- state, randomized control family centered childhood obesity prevention program. This family focus intervention was designed to promote PA through lifestyle modifications. Between group differences in minutes-per-day and intensity of PA were determined on accelerometer compliant participants. All subjects wore an accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X+) for 7 days at baseline, post, and follow-up intervention assessment. Mean daily minutes of accelerometer derived sedentary time (ST) and PA including light (LPA), moderate (MPA), vigorous (VPA) and moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) were evaluated during waking hours (7am-9pm). A multivariate test, Wilks’ Lambda, was used to determine the between group differences of PA from baseline, post, and follow-up. Statistical significance was set at p ≤ 0.05. There were no significant differences between groups due to the intervention at any intensity category of PA (mean min/day±SD; p-value). Although there was not a significant increase in any category of physical activity due to the lifestyle intervention, iCook 4-H was able to encourage participants to maintain current activity levels.</p>

Degree

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Master of Science (MS)
Level thesis:degree_level
Thesis - Open Access
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Health and Nutritional Sciences
Year dc:date.available
2016

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Merfeld, Chase
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Kendra Kattelmann

Subjects

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Rights

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Language dc:language
en

Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/979
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:openprairie.sdstate.edu:etd-1972

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citation

Merfeld, Chase. iCook 4-H: Report of Accelerometer Derived Physical Activity in 9-10 Year Old Children from Baseline, Post, and Follow-up. Thesis - Open Access thesis, 2016. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/979