Research update on association of physical activity with physical and mental health among children and adolescents

Abstract

In recent decades, there is a decreasing trend in physical activity, which might be associated with decline in physical and mental health among children and adolescents in China. The outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 further aggravated this trend. Under the background of normalized epidemic prevention and control, in order to deeply understand the relationship between physical activity and physical and mental health of children and adolescents, this study sorted out relevant domestic and foreign literatures, and analyzed the effects of physical activity on children and adolescents’ health and fitness. The positive effects of physical activity, cognition, and mental health were found to be significantly different in the type, intensity, and time of physical activity in the related health effects.

Abstract

【摘要】近几十年, 儿童青少年体力活动水平下降趋势明显, 导致其健康水平下降, 新冠肺炎疫情的暴发与蔓延进一步加 重了该趋势。在疫情防控常态化背景下, 为深人解析体力活动与儿童青少年身心健康之间的关系, 促进儿童青少年身心健 康水平, 追踪梳理了国内外相关主题文献, 分析了体力活动对儿童青少年健康体适能、认知和心理健康的积极影响, 发现相 关健康效应存在显著的体力活动类型、强度和时间差异等, 进而提出了体力活动相关研究的若干问题。