Jacob Szeszulski, Ghadir Helal Salsa, Paula Cuccaro, Christine M Markham, Mary Martin, Lara S Savas, Melissa Valerio-Shewmaker, Timothy J Walker, Andrew E Springer
Using Community-Academic Partnerships and a Creative Expression Contest to Engage Youth in the Development of Communication Materials for Promoting Behaviors That Prevent COVID-19
Health promotion practice
research demonstrated positive relationships fundamental movement skills fms mathematics achievement children relationship may mediated spatial ability engaging physical activity pa may also positive outcomes mathematics achievement however study investigated network relationships together study aimed examine relationship pa mathematics achievement mediating effects fms spatial abilities primary school children using crosssectional design data collected 182 children aged 7 8 years old across four schools england objective moderatetovigorous pa mvpa levels subjective parental reports childrens pa participation collected childrens fms assessed along performance four spatial ability tasks mathematics test mediation analyses revealed significant mediation effects fms spatial abilities positive significant relationship mvpa mathematics achievement however spatial ability partially mediated relationship fms mathematics achievement results suggest fms spatial ability may related mvpa network relationships children mature fms perform better mathematics due performing better specific spatial ability tasks