{"id":769,"date":"2020-09-08T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=769"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:08:20","slug":"early-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-activity-and-sedentary-behavior-in-children-living-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/08\/early-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-activity-and-sedentary-behavior-in-children-living-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children Living in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>US parents responding to an online survey reported that the most common physical activities during April to May 2020 for children (n=211, mean age=8.3 years) were free play\/unstructured activity (90%) and going for a walk (55%). Children engaged in about 90\u2009min of school-related sitting and over 8\u2009hours of leisure-related sitting per day.<\/li>\n<li>Parents of children ages 9-13 years were more likely to perceive a greater decrease of physical activity compared to parents of children ages 5-8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Dunton et al. (Dec 4, 2020). Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children Living in the U.S. BMC Public Health. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12889-020-09429-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12889-020-09429-3<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US parents responding to an online survey reported that the most common physical activities during April to May 2020 for children (n=211, mean age=8.3 years) were free play\/unstructured activity (90%) and going for a walk (55%). Children engaged in about 90\u2009min of school-related sitting and over 8\u2009hours of leisure-related sitting per day. Parents of children&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/08\/early-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-activity-and-sedentary-behavior-in-children-living-in-the-u-s\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}