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  • Physical Activity and Public Health
  • Developmental Pediatrics

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  • Identifying children needing physical literacy support is crucial for addressing health disparities.
  • Medical conditions and disabilities can impact a child's participation in physical activity.
  • Effective screening tools are needed for early intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate screening tasks for identifying children who may benefit from physical literacy interventions.
  • To determine the sensitivity and specificity of various screening measures.

Main Methods:

  • Children completed up to 20 screening tasks during a clinic visit.
  • The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy (2nd edition) was administered separately.
  • Receiver operator characteristic curves were used to determine optimal cut points for screening.

Main Results:

  • Physical activity adequacy, predilection, and competence showed high sensitivity and adequate specificity.
  • Adequacy scores ≤ 6.5 demonstrated 86-100% sensitivity and 48-49% specificity.
  • Combining daily screen time >4.9 hours with Adequacy ≤ 6.15 yielded 88-10% sensitivity and 53-56% specificity.

Conclusions:

  • Physical activity adequacy, with or without screen time, is an effective screening method.
  • Questionnaires assessing adequacy and screen time are suitable for clinical settings.
  • Further research is needed to improve the specificity of screening tools.