Pioneering measures to tackle sedentary behavior among children in China have proved effective, according to new research.
May 13 2024University of Bristol
The results are exciting as this type of regulatory intervention across multiple settings has never been tried before. Traditionally, children and their parents or carers have been guided with education and encouraged to make behavioral changes themselves, which hasn't really worked. The team of researchers in the UK and China analysed individually matched surveillance data gathered from more than 7,000 primary and secondary school students in 2020 and 2021, before and after the regulations were introduced. Participants were recruited from 31 urban or rural areas across 14 cities in the Guangxi region of Southern China.
The findings revealed students overall were nearly three times more likely to meet the Chinese government's recommendations for the maximum amount of time spent on homework. This likelihood lessened with age, dropping from 3.6 times among primary school children to 2.1 times among secondary school children.
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