Search results for "physical development"
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Influence of allergic disorders on physical development
2010
Abstract The aim of the paper was to asses the relationship between socioeconomic status, the prevalence of allergy and physical development. The data were obtained from 478 female students and 195 male students aged 19-24. The prevalence of allergy in the group surveyed was 14.6% (14.6% in women and 14.4% in men). Allergic diseases were more frequent in students of high socioeconomic status. The results of the analysis of variance did not show any significant differences in anthropometric characteristics between students with and without allergies. However, women and men with allergies diagnosed are on average shorter than people without allergies. The dependency is also visible after adju…
Effects of a Nine-Month Physical Activity Intervention on Morphological Characteristics and Motor and Cognitive Skills of Preschool Children
2020
(1) Background: Regular physical activity (PA) plays an important role during early childhood physical and psychological development. This study investigates the effects of a 9-month PA intervention on physiological characteristics and motor and cognitive skills in preschool children. (2) Methods: Preschool children (n = 132
Psychosomatic Disorders Among Adopted People
2012
Adoption is connected with a number of traumatic experiences, of which the experience of being abandoned by biological parents is of major significance. The fact of being abandoned usually involves a stay at a hospital and later on in various forms of family or institutionalized foster care, until the child is finally placed in an adoptive family. An important research question, both on theoretical and empirical grounds, concerns the psychosomatic dependencies between adoption and children’s psycho-physical development. The article presents an attempted synthesis of the theoretical findings and the results of the conducted empirical research. Considerations, apart from its cognitive aim, al…
The Utility of Motor Evaluation in the Analysis of Effects of Motor Activities on Students
2017
ABSTRACT This research aims to evaluate the effects of motor activities on pupils at primary education. The two samples of pupils were divided as follows: the first group, experimental group consisted of twenty-five students with the age between ten and twelve years old, thirteen boys and twelve girls, group which followed a specific program containing agonistic, playful and initiation training in sports games; and the second group, the control group, consisted of twenty-five students with the age between ten and twelve years old, fourteen boys and eleven girls, group that took the classical physical education and sports curriculum. The motor evaluation tests at which the students have been…
La influencia del peso y la talla en la erupción de la dentición temporal
2017
Objetivos: investigar la cronología y la secuencia de erupción de la dentición temporal y su relación con el peso y la talla en un grupo de niños y niñas de entre 0 y 3 años tanto al nacer como en la exploración. Analizar si existen diferencias significativas en la edad de erupción entre dientes contra laterales y entre dientes antagonistas para ambos sexos. Metodología: La muestra recogida fue constituida por 489 niños de raza caucásica, de los cuales 236 eran niños (48.3%) y 253 eran niñas (51.7%), asignados a dos centros de salud, seleccionados al azar. Todos los niños eran nacidos a término y tenían una edad comprendida entre 3 meses y 36 meses de edad. Ninguno de ellos presentaba alter…