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Profiling movement and gait quality using accelerometry in children’s physical activity: consider quality, not just quantity
  1. Cain Craig Truman Clark1,2
  1. 1 Department of Higher Education Sport, Hartpury University Centre, Gloucestershire, UK
  2. 2 College of Engineering, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Cain Craig Truman Clark, University Centre Hartpury, Gloucestershire, GL19 3BE, UK; Cain.clark{at}hartpury.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098204

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    What did I do?

    The overarching aim of this PhD was to characterise and profile children’s physical activity movement quality. Further, chapter specific aims were, (1) to verify the validity and reliability of accelerometry in a mechanical and laboratory setting, (2) to characterise and profile movement quality according to body mass index (BMI) and (3) to characterise and profile movement quality during recess and free play.

    Why did I do it?

    Regular physical activity during childhood is positively associated with a variety of physical, social and psychological factors.1–3 While there are a plethora of methods and techniques to quantify overall activity or energy expenditure, there is a paucity of research demonstrating objective methods to empirically derive quality of movement and its relationship with health, performance and risk factors.4

    How did I do it?

    1. Reliability and validity …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding Swansea University scholarship fund

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Ethics approval Swansea University Research Ethics Committee.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Data sharing statement All data under the auspices of this PhD will be or are published following peer-review.