The aim of this study is to report the proportions of Australian children age 5-16 years meeting six health behavior recommendations associated with reducing risk of non-communicable disease. Data comes from a representative cross-sectional population survey conducted in 2015. Parents completed a health behavior questionnaire for children age < 10 years and adolescents age > 10 years self-repor...

The increase in children’s screen time over the last few decades has concerned parents, educators, and policymakers alike, due to its association with negative developmental outcomes. Interventions have focused on cautioning parents against coaching them how limit it. Such interventions are unlikely be effective if is driven less by parental preference than necessity, supplementing insufficient...

Abstract The COVID?19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic created a multitude of natural experiments about the change human behavior in widely unfamiliar situation. Besides physical and mental health, activity (PA) people’s movement behaviors were particular interest to researchers all over world. In recent study, we found that among youth Germany, sports declined, whereas recreational screen t...