Correlation between different intensities of physical activity and school performance of elementary school children
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Physical activity; Academic achievement; Student.Abstract
This study aims to identify a possible correlation between the physical activity intensities and the academic performance. This is a cross-sectional study, with a non-probabilistic sample carried out in 2019 in a municipal educational institution in Ilhéus-BA. The study included 39 students of both sexes, in the fourth year of elementary school, who used an accelerometer (ActiGraph mod. GT3X+) for five consecutive school days. Academic performance was measured by classifying constructed competence (CC) and approximate competence (AC). A statistical analysis comprises the use of the t test for independent samples and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. All analysis procedures were conducted by IBM SPSS statistics and the significance level was set at 5%. We observed a correlation between very vigorous physical activities and academic performance (rho = 0.333; p=0.04). No statistically significant differences were observed in the comparison of sedentary time between CC and AC (p=0.442; 187.3 ± 15.8 vs. 191.5 ± 17.5 min/4h). In addition, the mean values of time spent in different intensities of physical activities, differed only in very vigorous physical activities when compared CC and CA (1.63 ± 0.66 vs. 1.13 ± 0.74 min/4h). In conclusion, academic performance in this sample was correlated only with very vigorous physical activities with the time spent in this intensity was higher for students classified with the best school performance.
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