A study of a sample of 10–11 year old children: their attitudes towards physical education and physical activity and their activity patterns with specific reference to playtime

For some time there has been growing concern over the apparent increasingly sedentary lifestyle of children. Hence children's activity patterns have come under scrutiny in an effort to establish whether this concern was justified and to examine the extent to which they were engaging in sufficient habitual exercise as would promote beneficial cardiovascular effects. [Continues.]