Miguel Ángel Pérez-Sousa

• PhD
• Lecturer at University of Córdoba

Background School bullying is a social problem that is receiving increasing scientific attention, with physical education (PE) emerging as a domain in which to address perpetration and victimisation. Objective This study aimed to assess the efficacy of the Prevention of Bullying in Physical Education (PREBULLPE) programme, and cooperative learning...

Objective: This study investigates the impact of physical activity, measured by accelerometer technology, on the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and related adverse events among U.S.A. adults. Additionally, it examines patient survival in older adults within this cohort. Methods: The research analyzed a cohort of 5,011 adults from the 2011–2014 Natio...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by low physical fitness, pain, and depression. The present study aimed to examine the effects of a supervised aquatic exercise program on physical fitness, depression, and pain in women with RA and determine whether decreases in pain mediate depression. Methods: Forty-three women with RA, di...

Background: This study aimed to provide population norms among children and adolescents in Chile using the EQ-5D-Y-3L questionnaire and to examine its feasibility and validity among body weight statuses. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which 2204 children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) from Chile completed a set of questionnaires...

Introduction: This study aimed to explore the associations of activity fragmentation with frailty status and all-cause mortality in a representative US sample of people 50 years and over. Methods: This prospective study used data from the 2003-2006 waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Participants 50 years or o...

(1) Background: The recent published version with five levels of response of EQ-5D-Y needs to be studied in children with chronic illness. For this, the aim of the present study was to assess and compare the psychometric properties of EQ-5D-Y-3L and EQ-5D-Y-5L in terms of feasibility, ceiling effect, redistribution properties, informativity and inc...

Abstract Recently, a valid method to assess lower-body muscle power based on a sit-to-stand field test (STS) has been published. Our study aimed to describe lower-body muscle power in older individuals aged ≥ 60 years and examine the relationship of muscle weakness with adverse events according to gender- and age-specific muscle weakness cut-off po...

Background: This study aimed to determine the effects on the quality of life (QoL) of an exercise program in obese children and detect what physical fitness components are responsible for the enhancement of the QoL Method: One hundred twenty-one obese and overweight children were part of an exercise group (9.4 ± 2.1 years old) that participated in...

Objective. Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a complex disease that is mainly characterized by chronic pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbances and may be precipitated or worsened by many stressors. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of respiratory muscle training (RMT) on respiratory efficiency and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in...

Objectives: The study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-level (EQ-5D-5L-Y) and to compare the performance of the EQ-5D-Y-5Lwith the EuroQol 5-Dimension 3-level (EQ-5D-3L-Y) in children and adolescents Methods: Spanish version of the 3L & 5L of EQ-5D for youths, were administered to children and adolescents dr...

El estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre la condición física y la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud (CVRS), midiendo el efecto mediador de la funcionalidad física. Se realizaron diferentes pruebas de condición física a adultos mayores. El cuestionario composite physical function se utilizó para medir la funcionalidad física...

Objectives. We investigated the association between physical fitness and cognitive status. Further, we examined whether physical fitness mediates the association between cognitive functioning and aging. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Urban and rural Colombian older adults. Methods. 4.416 participants from the SABE study were included in...

Agility is a key component of physical fitness in adolescents. However, the measurement of this variable is usually complex, requiring high cost instruments and complex software. To test the validity and reliability of a novel iPhone app (Lap Tracker Auto-timer) to measure agility performance among adolescents. Twenty-four physically active adolesc...

Objectives: Recently, the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2 (EWGSOP2) presented the new concept of probable sarcopenia to improve the screening and avoid future sarcopenia. We investigated the prevalence of probable sarcopenia in Colombian community-dwelling older adults and examined long-term conditions associated with probabl...

Excess central adiposity accelerates the decline of muscle strength in older people. Additionally, hyperglycemia, independent of associated comorbidities, is related to the loss of muscle mass and strength, and contributes to functional impairment in older adults. We studied the mediation effect of glucose levels, in the relationship between abdomi...

Jumping ability has been identified as one of the best predictors of dance performance. The latest findings in strength and conditioning research suggest that the relationship between force and velocity mechanical capabilities, known as the force-velocity profile, is a relevant parameter for the assessment of jumping ability. In addition, previous...

Purpose: the present study aimed to analyse the effects of 12 months of participation in a public physical activity program linked to primary care on depression level and fitness, and to determine which fitness components were responsible for the improvement in depression using mediation analysis. Methods: participants of this program were 2768 mid...

The adverse effects of fat mass on functional dependence might be attenuated or worsened, depending on the level of muscular strength. The aim of this study was to determine (i) the detrimental effect of excess adiposity on dependence in activities of daily living (ADL), and (ii) whether relative handgrip strength (HGS) moderates the adverse effect...

The aim of this work was to analyze the association between fitness and health-related quality of life, assessing the physical functionality impact as a mediator. Different tests of physical condition were carried. The composite physical function (CPF) questionnaire was used to measure the physical functionality and the EQ-5D-5L to quantify the HRQ...

IMPORTANCE Whether quality- or quantity-based physical education (PE) interventions are associated with improvement of health-related physical fitness outcomes and fundamental motor skills (FMSs) in children and adolescents is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of interventions aimed at optimizing PE in terms of quality (teaching strate...

Background: The short physical performance battery (SPPB) is a physical performance test of lower extremity function designed for non-disabled older adults. We aimed to establish reference values for community-dwelling Colombian adults aged 60 years or older in terms of (1) the total score; (2) the three subtest scores (walking speed, standing bala...

Objective: Considering the recognized importance of preserving muscle strength for optimizing health in the elderly, investigating the potential relationship between ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) and relative handgrip strength is highly relevant in older adults. The aims of the present study were: (i) to examine the prevalence of ideal CVH in C...

The present study evaluated the predictive ability of 11 obesity and lipid-related parameters, including body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WtHR), body roundness index (BRI), ‘A’ body-shape index (ABSI), conicity index (CI), visceral adiposity index (VAI), triglycerides-to-glucose fasting index (TyG), triglyceri...

The authors would like to make the following corrections to the published paper [1]: (1) In the result section replace: On page 6, in the text of the Section 3 [...]

Introduction: Gait speed worsens with the presence of obesity, and it is a powerful marker of functional dependence. So, gait speed could be a factor that improves or worsen the relation between obesity and dependence in activities of daily living (ADL). However, to date this role has not been examined nor do we know the minimum gait speed threshol...

The present study evaluated the ability of five obesity-related parameters, including a body shape index (ABSI), conicity index (CI), body roundness index (BRI), body mass index (BMI), and waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) for predicting increased cardiometabolic risk in a population of elderly Colombians. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1502 p...

Purpose: The study aimed to test whether improvement in fitness components, mediates the changes in Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) after exercise intervention in overweight and obese children. Methods and design: 170 obese and overweight children (121 exercise group and 49 control group) participated in a public exercise program based on sp...

Purpose EQ-5D-Y is a generic measure of health status for children and adolescents aged 8–15 years. Originally, it has three levels of severity in each dimension (3L). This study aimed to develop a descriptive system of EQ-5D-Y with an increased number of severity levels and to test comprehensibility and feasibility. Methods The study was conducte...

Running performance is a determinant factor for victory in Sprint and Olympic distance triathlon. Previous cycling may impair running performance in triathlons, so brick training becomes an important part of training. Wearable technology that is used by triathletes can offer several metrics for optimising training in real-time. The aim of this stud...

Background: Sarcopenia in older adults is strongly associated with an increase in dependency in activities of daily living (ADL) and with a decline in gait speed. Interestingly, gait speed has been shown to independently predict mortality. In this context, our study aimed to explore the mediator role of gait speed on the relationship between sarcop...

Background: There is sufficient evidence about the effects of physical exercise programs on health-related quality of life in obese and overweight children. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to observe the effects on physical fitness and HRQoL in overweight and obesity children and their parents and find out whether the effect of interventi...

Background There is evidence that overweight and obesity in children is associated with poor Physical Fitness and consequently lower Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL). However, this linear-causal relationship between Weight Status  Physical Fitness  HRQoL is not enough to fully understand this phenomenon. Therefore, need to know, through med...

Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem all over the world, causing a higher risk of developing diseases and psychological problems affecting even in adult life (Gordon-Larsen, Adair, Nelson, & Popkin, 2004). There are many studies that analyse the improvements on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) based-on physical exercis...

The aim of this study was to observe the effect of 6 weeks of individualised training based in the optimal F-V profile during counter movement jump (CMJ) in classic ballet dancers. Twenty professional female classic ballet dancers with more than six years of experience were randomly divided into a control group (CG=10participants, age=18.7±1.1years...

Previous investigation suggest that very heavy sled training 69-96%Body mass (BM) is more effective stimulus than low loads, for improving horizontal force and acceleration in sprint tests (Cross, Brughelli, Samozino, Brown, & Morin, 2017). The aim of this study is to observe the effect of 8 weeks of sled training with a load corresponding to 80%BM...

Introduction The cycle to run transition in triathlon is a key factor to achieve good results. It has been described several alterations in biomechanical and neuromotor patterns that modify the running economy and consequently the performance and final result on a race (Hausswirth, Bigard, & Guezennec, 1997). This study aimed to observe the effect...

The aim of this pilot study is to provide a descriptive reference for the F-V profile in male collegiate dancers, with a view to aiding future research in tailoring individualised training programmes so to optimise F-V imbalance and ultimately enhancing jump height in dancers. Twenty-three trained male collegiate dancers (age=18.74±0.810years, weig...

To analyze the association between physical fitness and anthropometric measures with HRQoL, and examined which HRQoL dimensions are mediated through PF in overweight or obese children

The aim of the study was to analyse the effect of a 4-week stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) training program on counter movement jump height in senior semi-professional female handball players. Twenty participants (age 21±1.58years, height 1.69±0.07m and body weight 64.79±7.65Kg) participated in the study and were randomly divided into a control grou...

Introduction. The assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) serves to detect changes over time in patients’ health status and allows to do a cost-e ectiveness analysis of treatments. When children with special health features cannot perform a self-assessment, it is possible to assess their HRQoL through their parents or caregivers. To da...

Description of physical profile of the juniors and beginners bullfighters.

Presentation on new training methods of swimming applied to triathlon

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the reliability of peak torque assessed using an isometric strength protocol of knee flexor and extensor muscles. Material and methods: A total of 16 women with Fibromyalgia (FM) (aged 54.9 ± 12.1) participated in this study. The design consisted of a 12-week test-retest, and isometric peak torque was...

A proxy version of the EQ-5D-Y, a questionnaire to evaluate the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents, has recently been developed. There are currently no data on the validity and reliability of this tool. The objective of this study was to analyze the validity and reliability of the EQ-5D-Y proxy version. A core set of...

Resumen La capacidad funcional es muy importante en las personas mayores institucionalizadas ya que un alto porcentaje de las caídas que se producen en estas personas es por causa de un bajo nivel de capacidad funcional. Un total de 14 mujeres mayores institucionalizadas completaron 2 sesiones de evaluación de la capacidad funcional empleando las p...

Introduction: The Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) questionnaire EQ-5D-Y for children and adolescents has been development and validated recently for its use in Spanish. However, the Spanish Proxy version of this tool has not yet been developed. The aim of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the international version of EQ-5D-Y...

IntroductionChronic non-specific low back pain is an increasingly prevalent ailment. This ailment affects functional capacity and quality of life of individuals who have this condition. The aim of this study was to determine relative and absolute test-retest reliability of the protocol for the evaluation of the progressive isoinertial lifting test...

IntroductionPersons having Polio Paralytic Sequelae must use walking canes and orthosis in most cases to perform daily activities such as maintaining posture, walking, etc. in order to maintain their quality of life. Therefore, reliability indexes (absolute and relative) should be determined in a hand held dynamometry test indicating the strength o...

Resumen Introducción: El dolor de espalda bajo crónico inespecífico es una dolencia cada vez más pre-valente. Esta dolencia afecta a la funcionalidad y a la calidad de vida del individuo que la padece. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar los índices relativos y absolutos de fiabi-lidad test-retest del protocolo de evaluación de la capacidad...

Introducción: Las personas con secuelas de poliomielitis paralítica necesitan en la mayoría de los casos de bastones ingleses y ortesis para realizar las actividades diarias como mantener la postura corporal, caminar, etc. a fin de no sufrir un detrimento en su calidad de vida. Por ello, es necesario determinar los índices de fiabilidad (absolutos...