Available evidence indicates that there are still a large proportion of
Portuguese children and adolescents that are not sufficiently active
and that exceed the recommended levels of screen-time. In Portugal,
virtually all students, enrolled in formal education, attain
regular Physical Education classes, which is of significance

Coelho-e-Silva, MJ

Mota, J

Raimundo, A

Santos, R

Sardinha, L

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Results From Portugal’s 2018 Report Card onPhysical Activity for Children and YouthJorge Mota, Rute Santos, Manuel João Coelho-e-Silva, Armando M. Raimundo,and Luís B. SardinhaaaaIntroductionIn 2016 we presented the ﬁrst Portuguese Report Card on PhysicalActivity for Children and Youth, based on available data from 2010to 2016. Meantime, new data has emerged and there is a need toupdate the evidence. Therefore, the current report aims at describ-ing the main results of the second Portuguese Report Card onPhysical Activity for Children and Youth (Figure 1).MethodsThe Research Center in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure at theFaculty of Sport, University of Porto leads and coordinates thePortuguese Report Card project. Similar to the previous PortugueseReport Card, a leadership group was established to prepare thecurrent Report Card. This group included experts in the ﬁeld ofsport and physical activity (PA) and represents the main PortugueseUniversities and research centers in Sport Sciences.The 2018 Portuguese Report Card corresponds to the secondreport of its kind for the Portuguese population of children andadolescents. It includes ten indicators of PA and sedentary behavior(SB) that are common to the GLOBALmatrix 3.o: Overall PhysicalActivity, Organized Sport and Physical Activity, Active Play,Active Transportation, Sedentary Behaviors, Family and Peers,School, Community and the Environment, Government and Phys-ical Fitness.Results and DiscussionThe grades assigned to each indicator are presented in Table 1.National representative studies with objectively measured data onphysical activity and sedentary time are necessary given that asubstantial data provides from self-reported surveys. Future studieson active play and leisure activities among Portuguese school-agedchildren would also be key to inform future Portuguese Kids Cards.ConclusionAvailable evidence indicates that there are still a large proportion ofPortuguese children and adolescents that are not sufﬁciently activeand that exceed the recommended levels of screen-time. In Portu-gal, virtually all students, enrolled in formal education, attainregular Physical Education classes, which is of signiﬁcance.Conversely, there has been a signiﬁcant progress in Portugalregarding government efforts in promoting physical activity.References1. Baptista F, Santos DA, Silva AM, et al. Prevalence of the Portuguesepopulation attaining sufﬁcient physical activity. Med Sci SportsExerc. 2012;44(3):466–473. PubMed ID: 21844823 doi:10.1249/MSS.0b013e318230e4412. Lopes C, Torres D, Oliveira A, et al. Inquérito Alimentar Nacional ede Atividade Física IAN-AF 2015-2016. Portugal: Universidade doPorto; 2017.3. HBSC. Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differencesin young people’s health and well-being. Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2013/2014Figure 1 — Portugal’s 2018 Report Card cover.Mota and Santos are with the Research Centre in Physical Activity and Leisure, Faculty of Sport at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Coelho-e-Silva is with the Facultyof Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Raimundo is with the Department of Sport and Health at the School of Sciences andTechnology at the University of Évora, and with the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health and Human Development, Évora, Portugal. Sardinha is with the Exercise andHealth Laboratory, Faculty of Human Kinetics, at the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Mota (jmota@fade.up.pt) is corresponding author.S398Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2018, 15(Suppl 2), S398-S399https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2018-0541© 2018 Human Kinetics, Inc. BRIEF REPORTsurvey. 2016. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_ﬁle/0003/303438/HSBC-No.7-Growing-up-unequal-Full-Report.pdf?ua=1. Ac-cessed April 2018.4. Pizarro AN, Santos MP, Ribeiro JC, Mota J. Physical activity andactive transport are predicted by adolescents’ different built environ-ment perceptions. J Public Health. 2012;20(1):5–10. doi:10.1007/s10389-011-0432-45. Pizarro AN, Ribeiro JC, Marques EA, Mota J, Santos MP. Is walkingto school associated with improved metabolic health? Int J BehavNutr Phys Act. 2013;10:12. PubMed ID: 23360463 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-10-126. ARSA. Administração Regional de Saúde do Alentejo (ARSA).Estudo de Saúde da População Infantil da Região Alentejo– Re-lato´rio. Évora, Portugal: Núcleo Regional do Alentejo da Plataformacontra a Obesidade da ARSA; 2012.7. 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J Pediatr.2018;192:130–135. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.09.055Table 1 Grades and Rationales for Portuguese’s 2018 Report CardIndicator Grade RationaleOverall PhysicalActivity LevelsD Objectively measured data on PA shows that 36% of young people aged 10 to 11 years and 4% among adolescentsaged 16 to 17 years accomplished the WHO PA guidelines of 60 minutes per day of moderate-to-vigorous PA.1Recent self-reported data on PA shows that 57.5% of youth aged 6–14 years and 35.6% for those aged 15 to 21years2; and that less 25% of youth aged 11 to 15 years3 complies with the WHO PA recommendations.Organized SportParticipationB- Self-reported data indicates that 61.8% of children aged 6 to 9 years and 59% of youth aged 10 to 17 yearsparticipates in some form of organized sports at least once per week.2 About 21% of children and adolescents livingin Portugal are currently enrolled in a sport club/sport federation (http://www.idesporto.pt/conteudo.aspx?id=103and https://www.pordata.pt). About 18% of children and adolescents, enrolled in formal education, participate inschool sports clubs (Portuguese Ministry of Education – unpublished data).Active Play INC For this indicator no grade was assigned, because there is little available literature related to active play and leisureactivities among Portuguese school-aged children.Active Transportation C- 45% of 1067 urban school-aged children commute actively to and from school4 with walking being the main patternof transportation to school.5 About 30% of 3000 Portuguese children aged 7 to 8 years, living in a country side regionwalk or cycle to school on a regular basis.6Sedentary Behaviours C- 35% of children aged 6 to 14 years spent more than 2 hours per day watching TV on weekdays and more that 75% onweekends.2 Results from the latest HBSC also shows that the percentage of Portuguese youth, aged 11 to 15 years,engaging in 2 or more hours of TV viewing on weekdays ranges ranged between 45 to 62%.3Family and Peers C Available data for Portuguese youth suggests parental inﬂuence of offspring PA levels.7School A Portugal has national curricula and Physical Education (PE) classes are mandatory for all students, from pre-schooluntil the 12th grade. Time allocated to PE classes ranges from 90 to 150/week over 2 or 3 sessions/week. PE is taughtby a graduated PE teacher.85% of schools offer school clubs under the supervision of a PE teacher including competitions within and betweenschool and it is of generalized school policy to allow students to be active during their recess time.Community andEnvironmentB Data from the latest Eurobarometer indicates that 67% of Portuguese tended to agree that their living areas offermany opportunities to be physically active8Government B The Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth is implementing a National Sports for All Program. In 2016, thePortuguese government set up an inter ministerial commission for the promotion of PA with representatives from theMinistry of Health, Ministry ofWork, Solidarity and Social Security, Ministry of Education and theMinistry ScienceTechnology and Higher Education. And, recently this commission launched the Portuguese Action Plan for PhysicalActivity.Fitness C Data from the 2011 Portuguese National Observatory of Physical Activity9 with youth aged 10–18 years andbaseline data from the 2011–14 LabMed Study10 with youth aged 12–18 years was reanalyzed and in both data setsparticipants attained on average percentile 50 on the 20 m shuttle run test according to Tomkinson, Lang et al (2017)criteria.JPAH 15 Supplement 2, 20182018 Portuguese Report Card S399Downloaded by on 11/27/18

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