THE TREND OF DAILY PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES PREVALENCE AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

Time spent outdoors in the early years is positively correlated with physical activity levels among children (Sallis et al., 1993). This article presents the prevalence of daily physical activities of children in the city of Tirana for the physical activities carried out. A total of 452 children (224 boys and 228 girls) are surveyed by the questionnaire (PAQ-C) for assessing the prevalence of physical activities (during the last week). Children who have completed the 
questionnaire are of age of 10.4 years old. Children are engaged in daily walking at 83.5% , while 52.7 % of them do bicycling, 74.8% running and 83.8% do daily games during their free time on the last of week of activities. Fourth grade children have lower participation in all daily activities compare to fifth grade children as follows, daily walking (82.8%),  bicycling (52.2 %), running (73.4 %) and games (82.7%).