Washington, 2 APR ( EFE).-nearly 50 per cent of children in the United States.UU. do not pass or one hour daily game outdoors with his father or his mother, according to a study published today the Journal Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Compared to the white mothers, Hispanic mothers have a propensity 20 percent less to get their children to play outdoors every day; a 41 per cent black and Asian 49 percent, according to the study.
Academy of Pediatrics of United States encourages doctors to promote an active and healthy lifestyle which includes for children to play outdoors as much as possible, he recalled the publication of the Medical Association of the United States.UU.
The study indicated that the participation of children in games and physical activities in the open air is beneficial for driving development, vision, cognition, vitamin D levels and mental health.
Team of researchers in the Seattle Institute for research of children and the University of Chicago, headed by Pooja Tandon, for his study used data from the study Longitudinal of children early, representative of the national population.
Scientists quantified the frequency of the children’s play pool, supervised by the father or the mother, according to information provided by own parents.
According to the article, the sample of 8,950 children represents the characteristics of approximately 4 million girls and boys in the entire United States.UU.
“On average we found that nearly half of the boys and girls in pre-school, in this sample, do not go to play out of the House every day in the company either the father or the mother,” noted the authors article.
“in it refers to children that they do not have another child care apart from the father and the mother (and therefore probably not have other people who take out them on a regular basis) 42 per cent does not leave the House on a daily basis”, added.
According to the information provided by relatives, 51 percent of children out to walk or to play at least once a day with the mother or the father. In the case of children who are not in the care of nannies, 58 percent has activity outdoors under the supervision of their parents.
Researchers found no significant Association of the frequency of the game outdoors with the time children spend watching television, the marital status of the mother, the household income or perceptions of the family about safety in the neighborhood.
In general terms, according to the study, the daily output to play outdoors seems more common among boys, those who have a greater number of common game companions and those whose parents practice a more physical exercise.
The 51 per cent of children out to walk or to play at least once a day with the mother or the father. EFE/file
