Effect of Residential Area on the Physical Activity of 7 Years Old Child in Malaysia

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10.2991/assehr.k.210312.095How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Residential Area, Urban-Rural, Physical Activity

Abstract

Environmental factors such as residential areas are found to be related to physical activity in children. Physical activity is really related to the level of physical fitness for a person. Physical activity is the body movement created by the skeletal muscle resulting in energy production. This study aims to identify the characteristics of urban and rural areas based on the physical fitness test and to differentiate the effect of residential areas on the physical activity of 7 years old child in Malaysia. A total of 66481 children were randomly selected from primary schools in entire Malaysia with mean weight (±23.2871), height (±120.3907), and age (±7.4123). Based on their school position, a total of 34458 urban children and 32023 rural children. They were tested by physical fitness tests to measure power, flexibility, coordination, and speed. The analysis used in this study was Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). After the varimax rotation in PCA, the result showed that both urban and rural areas have the same characteristic, which is the factor loading of power, coordination, and speed greater than 0.6. The results of the MANOVA test showed a significant difference of p <0.05 for all parameters tested. Besides, both groups showed that children from rural areas tend to have better physical activity than children from the urban area. In summary, environmental factors and lifestyle play an important role in deciding physical activity levels among children. Proper planning and implementing health promotion programs, encouraging regular physical activity practice, need to be implemented to fight against sedentary behavior.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - M A R Zainoddin
AU  - M R Abdullah
AU  - A B H M Maliki
AU  - Kalfin
AU  - Ira Sumiati
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/13
TI  - Effect of Residential Area on the Physical Activity of 7 Years Old Child in Malaysia
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial Revolution (ICSTEIR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 593
EP  - 600
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210312.095
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.095
ID  - Zainoddin2021
ER  -