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The Relationship Between Physical and Sedentary Activity on the Mental Health Outcomes of Children and Youth In the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Introduction:
Mood disorders are a serious burden on Canadians. Physical and sedentary activity are easily modifiable risk factors for many diseases. An association with depression could have important implications
Objective:
To investigate any cross-sectional or longitudinal association between physical activity, sedentary activity, and depression in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).
Methods:
These studies used both a stacked cross-sectional and a trajectory/latent class analysis design Univariate and multivariate multinomial logistic regressions were used to assess the relationship between physical and sedentary activity and depression using the emotional disorder-anxiety scale for children and youth available in the NLSCY.
Results:
When accounting for covariates, physically inactive respondents had increased odds of higher depressive symptom scores. Sedentary activity was only statistically significantly associated with depressive symptoms in the cross-sectional design.
Conclusions:
Physical inactivity is significantly associated to depressive symptomatology. The relationship between sedentary activity and depression is inconclusive.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/33022
Date January 2015
CreatorsBélair, Marc-André
ContributorsColman, Ian, Kohen, Dafna
PublisherUniversité d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Source SetsUniversité d’Ottawa
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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