Profiling Movement and Gait Quality Characteristics in Pre-School Children

Cain C.T. Clark; Claire M. Barnes; Nils J. Swindell; Mark D. Holton; Daniel D. Bingham; Paul J. Collings; Sally E. Barber; Huw D. Summers; Kelly A. Mackintosh; Gareth Stratton

doi:10.1080/00222895.2017.1375454

Profiling Movement and Gait Quality Characteristics in Pre-School Children

Cain C.T. Clark, Claire M. Barnes, Nils J. Swindell, Mark D. Holton, Daniel D. Bingham, Paul J. Collings, Sally E. Barber, Huw D. Summers, Kelly A. Mackintosh, Gareth Stratton

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Abstract

There is a dearth of suitable metrics capable of objectively quantifying motor competence. Further, objective movement quality characteristics during free play have not been investigated in pre-school children. The aims of this study were to characterize children's free play physical activity and investigate how gait quality characteristics cluster with free play in pre-school children (3–5 years old). Sixty-one children (39 boys; 4.3 ± 0.7 years, 1.04 ± 0.05 m, 17.8 ± 3.2 kg) completed the movement assessment battery for children and took part in free play while wearing an ankle- and hip-mounted accelerometer. Characteristics of movement quality were profiled using a clustering algorithm. Spearman's rho and the Mann-Whitney U tests were used to assess relationships between movement quality characteristics and motor competence classification differences in integrated acceleration and spectral purity, respectively. Significant differences were found between motor competency classifications for spectral purity and integrated acceleration (p <.001). Spectral purity was hierarchically clustered with motor competence and integrated acceleration. Significant positive correlations were found between spectral purity, integrated acceleration and motor competence (p <.001). This is the first study to report spectral purity in pre-school children and the results suggest that the underlying frequency component of movement is clustered with motor competence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	557-565
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Motor Behavior
Volume	50
Issue number	5
Early online date	6 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2017.1375454
Publication status	Published - 3 Sept 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Accelerometer
clustergram
motor competence
spectral purity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biophysics
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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