Abstract

LIMA, Luan Pereira; MACIEL, Erika da Silva; TOLOCKA, Rute Estanislava  and  COELHO, Vitor Antonio Cerignoni. The family's perception about level of physical activity and sedentary behavior in preschoolers: consequences for physical and cognitive development. Rev. psicopedag. [online]. 2021, vol.38, n.115, pp. 44-54. ISSN 0103-8486.  http://dx.doi.org/10.51207/2179-4057.20210004.

OBJECTIVE: To verify the family's perception of the presence of sedentary behaviors and the level of physical activity of preschoolers at home and at school METHODS: A field research (ecological design) was carried out with 26 parents of preschoolers. Parents answered two questionnaires, one related to the activities carried out inside and outside the school environment by their children and the other on the level of physical activity RESULTS: The low frequency of physical activities offered by parents in the child's two main microsystems is evident, both at home (13%) and at school (9%) and more than 50% of children were classified as not much active and with high exposure to television CONCLUSION: Agents directly involved with children tend to offer sedentary activities more frequently when compared to physical activities, influencing the amount of active activities performed by children

Keywords : Physical Activity; Preschool Children; Sedentary Behavior; Ecological Theory.

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