Code
3F021107
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Education curriculum
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Medical and health sciences
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics and neonatology
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics and neonatology
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
- Nursing
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics and neonatology
Keywords
children
obesity
motor control
overweight
Project description
Motor competence (gross as well as fine motor skills) in prepubertal boys and girls is studied. Field test for the evaluation of motor competence as well as kinematic analyses in the lab are used. The aim is to investigate whether the mechanical effect of overweight is the only explanation for the supposed lower motor competence in children with overweight and obese children.