TY - JOUR AU - Muhajarine, Nazeem AU - Katapally, Tarun R. AU - Fuller, Daniel AU - Stanley, Kevin G. AU - Rainham, Daniel PY - 2015 DA - 2015/05/17 TI - Longitudinal active living research to address physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour in children in transition from preadolescence to adolescence JO - BMC Public Health SP - 495 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Children can be highly active and highly sedentary on the same day! For instance, a child can spend a couple of hours playing sports, and then spend the rest of the day in front of a screen. A focus on examining both physical activity and sedentary behaviour throughout the day and in all seasons in a year is necessary to generate comprehensive evidence to curb childhood obesity. To achieve this, we need to understand where within a city are children active or sedentary in all seasons. This active living study based in Saskatoon, Canada, aims to understand the role played by modifiable urban built environments in mitigating, or exacerbating, seasonal effects on children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour in a population of children in transition from preadolescence to adolescence. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1822-2 DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1822-2 ID - Muhajarine2015 ER -