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Monitoring Motor Competence in 1- to 3-year-old Flemish Toddlers (MoMoCo): Reference values and insight into the correlates/determinants of motor competence and its development during the early years of life.
Code
01D28522
Duration
01 October 2022 → 31 October 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Health promotion and policy
    • Human movement and sports sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Toddlers Motor competence (MC) Motor development Cognitive and socio-emotional development Individual and environmental factors Parents’ and daycare center caregivers’ perspective Mixed-methods approach
 
Project description
 

MC is key for a healthy/active lifestyle, but hardly documented in 1- to 3-year-olds. Besides determining actual MC-levels in Flemish toddlers for developing up-to-date reference values, the variability of MC-trajectories will be linked to cognitive and socio-emotional functioning with identification of individual and environmental determinants. Parents’/(day)caregivers’ knowledge, perception and needs regarding the daily promotion of MC will also be investigated.