Few Canadian children and youth were meeting the 24-hour movement behaviour guidelines 6-months into the COVID-19 pandemic: Follow-up from a national study Sarah A Moore (
[email protected] ) Dalhousie University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-0199 Guy Faulkner University of British Columbia Ryan E Rhodes University of Victoria Leigh M Vanderloo ParticipACTION Leah J Ferguson University of Saskatchewan Michelle D Guerrero Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Mariana Brussoni University of British Columbia Raktim Mitra Ryerson University Norm O’Reilly University of Maine John C Spence University of Alberta Tala Chulak-Bozzer ParticipACTION Mark S Tremblay Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Research Article Keywords: pediatrics, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep, outdoor play Posted Date: July 29th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-757883/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Page 1/16 Abstract Daily life has changed for families due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this repeated cross-sectional study was to describe movement behaviours in Canadian children and youth six months into the pandemic (T2; October 2020) compared with the start of the pandemic (T1, April 2020). An online survey was distributed to parents (N = 1568) of children and/or youth (5–17 years; 58% girls) in October 2020. The survey assessed changes in movement behaviours [physical activity (PA) and play, sedentary behaviours (SB), and sleep] from before the pandemic to October 2020 (T2). We compared these data to spring data (T1; April 2020; Moore et al., 2020) collected using identical methodology (N = 1472; 54% girls).