Legey, S., Filho, A.S.S., Yadollahpour, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-1216-2109 et al. (6 more authors) (2022) Health-related fitness as a predictor of anxiety levels among school adolescents: an observational cross-sectional study. Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health, 18 (1). e174501792208151. ISSN 1745-0179
Abstract
Background:
There is an inverse association between cardiorespiratory fitness and general anxiety levels in adolescents. Obesity also is associated with a higher risk of anxiety in this population. However, little is known about the association between other health-related fitness elements with anxiety symptoms in this population. The authors explored the relationship between health-related fitness and anxiety symptoms in a large sample of Brazilian youth.
Methods:
This was an observational cross-sectional study with a sample comprised of 257 school adolescents, who were 136 girls (52.9%) and 121 boys (47.1%). The health-related fitness elements were evaluated by FitnessGram® test and anxiety levels by Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children - 39. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to determine the association between health-related fitness elements and anxiety symptoms in both sexes.
Results:
In male adolescents, only the cardiorespiratory fitness was significantly associated with anxiety symptoms (F(1, 119) = 6.472; P = 0.012; R2 = 0.052; adjusted R2 = 0.044). In turn, the anxiety symptoms showed an inverse small relationship with cardiorespiratory fitness (r = - 0.227; P < 0.01). However, in female adolescents, no association was found between health-related fitness elements and anxiety symptoms.
Conclusion:
The level of cardiorespiratory fitness may represent a marker of anxiety in male adolescents.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Legey et al. Open-Access License: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Keywords: | Adolescents; Anxiety; Epidemiology; Fitness; Mental health; Physical activity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 12:06 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2023 12:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2174/17450179-v18-e2208151 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200589 |