Christine Lämmle

Christine Lämmle
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen · Division of Paediatric and Juvenile Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Gut ausgebildete motorische Fähigkeiten unterstützen die gesamte kindliche Entwicklung und tragen nachhaltig zur Gesundheit bei. Um Übergewicht und den damit verbundenen Folgeerkrankungen präventiv zu begegnen, rückt eine frühzeitige Förderung der motorischen Fähigkeiten als Strategie zur langfristigen Steigerung der...
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Objective: Overweight and obesity lead to adverse health outcomes and track from childhood into adulthood. There is growing evidence that social disparities in overweight already exist in childhood. This study examines associations between weight status in childhood, parental cultural background and socioeconomic status (SES). Methods: Height and w...
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Background: Physical activity is positively related to motor abilities. Especially in childhood, an active lifestyle is important to support healthy motor development. The low-threshold health promotion programme “Join the Healthy Boat” in kindergartens promotes physical activity in order to also improve motor abilities. Here, effects of the progra...
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In recent decades, prevalence of childhood overweight has increased worldwide and became a public health concern. One reason is children's insufficient engagement in physical activity (PA) which may lead to deficient motor skills, which are interdependent. Therefore, early health promotion such as the kindergarten-based health promotion programme "...
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Children with migration background (MB) appear to be at higher risk of developing obesity, therefore, prevention is necessary to avoid possible health inequalities. This study investigated a 1-year intervention with focus on increasing physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable intake (FVI), decreasing screen media use (SMU) and soft drink cons...
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Inactivity and an unhealthy diet amongst others have led to an increased prevalence of overweight and obesity even in young children. Since most health behaviours develop during childhood health promotion has to start early. The setting kindergarten has been shown as ideal for such interventions. “Join the Healthy Boat” is a kindergarten-based heal...
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Aim This study objectively investigated the amount and intensity of German primary school children’s physical activity (PA) during different segments of the school day and explored the contribution of physical education (PE) and break times to daily moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA). Subject and methods PA of 294 children (7.1 ± 0.7 years, 48 % male)...
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› Background: Physical activity (PA) is important for healthy development. During childhood, PA is realised by unstructured play and instructed sports. Few children achieve the recommended 90-120 minutes of daily PA. Interventions promoting PA have to start early and have to combine behavioural and situational approaches. › Research question: How i...
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Purpose: Motor abilities of migrant children show worse performance compared with children without migration background. This study investigated whether a one-year intervention, which aimed to increase physical activity (PA), could influence the motor performance of these children positively. Methods: A sub-sample of 525 migrant children (7.1 ± 0.7...
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Purpose: Physical activity (PA) has positive effects on children's development. Particularly in childhood, PA plays an important role for children's motor skills. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of the intervention program "Join the Healthy Boat" on motor abilities of primary school children. Methods: The baseline measur...
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Background In Germany, the prevalence of overweight and obese people has increased significantly in the last decades. Intervention strategies for health promotion have to start early, since most health behaviours develop during childhood. Therefore, the kindergarten setting is ideal for health promotion because children can be reached at a young ag...

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