Table 3.
Associations among daily Physical Activity, Sleep, and Screen-time with Fundamental Motor Skills at One-year Follow up in Preschoolers (n=53)^
| Ball Skills | Locomotor Skills | Total TGMD-3 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beta | SE | p-value | R2 | Beta | SE | p-value | R2 | Beta | SE | p-value | R2 | |
| Behaviors (hours/day) | ||||||||||||
| LPA | −1.77 | 1.78 | 0.32 | 0.52 | −4.18 | 1.62 | 0.01* | 0.57 | −5.88 | 2.19 | 0.01* | 0.68 |
| MVPA | 1.34 | 1.66 | 0.42 | 3.54 | 1.46 | 0.02* | 4.68 | 2.03 | 0.02* | |||
| Sleep | 0.51 | 2.13 | 0.80 | 4.68 | 1.94 | 0.02* | 5.19 | 2.64 | 0.05 | |||
| Screen-time | −0.29 | 0.28 | 0.30 | −0.42 | 0.26 | 0.11 | −0.79 | 0.36 | 0.03* | |||
| Movement Guidelines Met | ||||||||||||
| Physical Activity | 2.66 | 2.38 | 0.27 | 0.52 | 1.92 | 2.31 | 0.41 | 0.48 | 4.34 | 3.13 | 0.17 | 0.63 |
| Sleep | 0.03 | 2.60 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 2.62 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 3.49 | 0.82 | |||
| Screen-time | 2.96 | 2.11 | 0.16 | 2.98 | 2.10 | 0.16 | 6.42 | 2.82 | 0.03* | |||
| Number of Guidelines Met | ||||||||||||
| Met Only One Guideline | Ref | Ref | Ref | 0.57 | Ref | Ref | Ref | 0.48 | Ref | Ref | Ref | 0.63 |
| Met Two Guidelines | 0.07 | 1.97 | 0.96 | 1.85 | 1.99 | 0.35 | 1.63 | 3.94 | 0.54 | |||
| Met Three Guidelines | 4.73 | 2.92 | 0.11 | 4.25 | 2.98 | 0.16 | 9.09 | 3.94 | 0.02* | |||
Assessed using linear regression using raw fundamental motor skill scores and adjustment for race, the other movement behaviors (physical activity, sleep, and screen-time), and accelerometer wear time; R2 presented is for the entire model (movement and covariates); LPA = Light Physical Activity; MVPA= Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity; TGMD-3 = Test of Gross Motor Development—Third Edition;
p<0.05;