O desempenho cognitivo de crianças com diferentes níveis de aptidão cardiorrespiratória

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Kaline Brito dos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA
• Palavras-chave em Português: Aptidão física; Cognição; Desempenho acadêmico; Exercício; Desenvolvimento cerebral; Comportamento saudável
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/32406

INTRODUCTION: The benefits of an active lifestyle seem to have implications for the health and education of children. OBJECTIVE: To investigate levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition with specific inhibitory control and academic performance in children aged 9 to 11 years. METHODS: Forty-eight children with a mean age of 10.5 ± 0.7 years participated in the study, among whom 25 (52.1%) were boys and 23 (47.9%) were girls. To analyze the correlation between the variables, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients were used. In significant correlations (p ≤ 0.05), the predictive power (R2 ) of the independent variables over the dependent variables (cognitive variables) was determined by linear regression analysis. RESULTS: It was evidenced that the group with greater cardiorespiratory fitness had a longer reaction time (RT) in the inhibitory food control test and a lower performance in the school performance test (SPT) compared to the other groups of low and moderate cardiorespiratory fitness. In addition, we observed that children witha higher percentage of fat had more errors in the specific inhibitory cognitive test for food and a shorter reaction time for food. CONCLUSION: This study allows us to conclude that a higher level of cardiorespiratory fitness is not related to better cognitive performance in this population.