Does SuperPark Make Children Less Sedentary? : How Visiting a Commercial Indoor Activity Park Affects 7 to 12 Years Old Children’s Daily Sitting and Physical Activity Time
Pesola, A. J., Melin, M., Vanhala, A., Gao, Y., & Finni Juutinen, T. (2018). Does SuperPark Make Children Less Sedentary? : How Visiting a Commercial Indoor Activity Park Affects 7 to 12 Years Old Children’s Daily Sitting and Physical Activity Time. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (8), 1595. doi:10.3390/ijerph15081595
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2018Discipline
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: Commercial indoor activity parks provide children with a variety of entertaining physical
activities. This study examined whether visiting SuperPark affects total daily sitting and physical
activity time. The participants (8 girls and 7 boys, aged 10.3 ± 1.9 years, height 144.5 ± 11.8 cm,
body mass index (BMI) 19.3 ± 3.0 kg/m2
) wore a thigh-worn accelerometer during a normal week
and were provided free tickets to visit SuperPark on at least one day. On average, the children spent
3.3 ± 1.2 h in SuperPark. During the visits the children had 0.9 h less sitting (0.7 ± 0.3 h, p = 0.000)
and 0.9 h more moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA; 1.4 ± 0.6 h, p = 0.002) as compared to
the reference periods on days without a SuperPark visit (1.6 ± 0.3 h sitting and 0.5 ± 0.4 h MVPA).
During the days when visiting SuperPark, sitting time decreased 1.0 h (5.8 ± 0.9 h, p = 0.008) and
MVPA increased 0.8 h (3.0 ± 1.0 h, p = 0.017) as compared to the reference days (6.8 ± 1.1 h sitting and
2.2 ± 0.8 h MVPA). The effects were more pronounced during weekdays than weekends. The children
spent more than three hours in SuperPark on one visit, of which almost a half was MVPA. During the
whole day, one hour of sitting was replaced with MVPA, suggesting that visiting SuperPark has the
potential to improve health. Whether children continue visiting SuperPark and gain health benefits
merits investigation.
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