Sanela Pivač, Primož Gradišek, Brigita Skela-Savič
The impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training on schoolchildren and their CPR knowledge, attitudes toward CPR, and willingness to help others and to perform CPR: mixed methods research design
BMC public health
public school children regularly participate schoolbased physical activity physical education fitness testing however almost 2 million american children homeschooled purpose research assess body composition elementary schoolaged homeschool children corresponding cardiovascular disease cvd risk research explored body composition cvd risk 145 homeschool children aged 511 years using body mass index bmi percent body fat waist circumference chisquare mannwhitney u tests examined differences cvd risk within homeschool population overall homeschool children average bmi zscores sd range mean 011 097 347 253 unhealthy classifications seen 112 sample bmi 196 percent body fat 497 waist circumference statistical analysis revealed difference cvd risk sexes 2 1 0062 p 804 ethnicities 2 1 0927 p 336 increased prevalence children aged 59 years u 1427 z 4559 p 001 almost half elementary schoolaged homeschool children showed increased risk cvd need regular assessment central adiposity