As part of our project "Learning needs exercise - Fit and clever at school", the physical fitness of children and adolescents in the Bavarian Berchtesgadener Land district was examined from 2016-2020. In addition to motor skills, further parameters such as the ability to concentrate and health-related quality of life were also recorded.
Initial results were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. According to the results, there is a positive correlation between the children's fitness and their power of concentration as well as their well-being: Fitter children can concentrate better and have a higher health-related quality of life - this is already evident in primary school and applies to both girls and boys.
The publication and a press release on World Health Day on 7.4.22 aroused media interest in our study and led to much coverage (online, newspapers, magazines, radio). The high relevance of the topic for the general population was also a reason for SPIEGEL to report on the importance of fitness for the cognitive development of children (print version: DER SPIEGEL No. 17 / 23.4.2022, p. 99).
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