Jang-Sik Ko, Seon-Rye Kim, Byung-Jun Cho
The Effect of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Education on the CPR Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Confidence in Performing CPR among Elementary School Students in Korea
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
purpose study evaluate age gender differences objectively measured physical activity pa populationbased sample students grades 112participants 185 male 190 female wore csa 7164 accelerometer 7 consecutive days examine agerelated trends students grouped follows grades 13 n 90 grades 46 n 91 grades 79 n 96 grades 1012 n 92 bouts pa minutes spent moderatetovigorous pa mvpa vigorous pa vpa examineddaily mvpa vpa exhibited significant inverse relationship grade level largest differences occurring grades 13 46 boys active girls however overall pa magnitudes gender differences modest participation continuous 20min bouts pa low nonexistentour results support notion pa declines rapidly childhood adolescence accelerometers feasible alternatives selfreport methods moderately sized populationlevel surveillance studies