The 2018 National Report on Children’s and Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Physical Fitness for Montenegro
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Abstract
Background: We aimed to focus on a review of the literature on physical activity and physical fitness for children and adolescents in Montenegro, to identify and evaluate the current situation and provide a better basis for the creation of a future monitoring system.
Methods: The Montenegrin Research Team (MRT) has set up a specific methodology that is reflected in the assessment of physical activity and physical fitness of Montenegrin children and adolescents through ten separate indicators. Grades were awarded based on data found in available scientific articles that were published up to 2018, as well as in the grey literature, such as government and nongovernment reports and online content from the same period.
Results: All indicators averaged 3.7 on a six-point scale. It is interesting to note that two indicators were rated as excellent, three more indicators were rated with above-average, four indicators were rated as below-average and, lastly, one indicator was rated as “unfinished”.
Conclusion: Children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and physical fitness for Montenegro might be good, especially if compared to other countries from the region.
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2. Abdeta C, Teklemariam Z, Deksisa A, Abera E, Ocansey R, Okely AD (2019). As-sessment of Physical Activity Indicators for Children and Youth in Ethiopia: Evi-dence from the Global Matrix 3.0 Study (2017-2018). Sports Med Open, 5(1):55.
3. Aubert S, Barnes JD, Abdeta C, et al (2018). Global Matrix 3.0 Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth: Results and Analysis From 49 Countries. J Phys Act Health, 15:S251-73.
4. Tomkinson GR, Wong SHS (2019). Special issue: Global Matrix 3.0-An introduction to the report cards on the physical activity of children and youth from five Asian countries and regions. J Exerc Sci Fit, 17(1):1-2.
5. Starc G, Strel J (2011). Tracking excess weight and obesity from childhood to young adulthood: a 12-year prospective cohort study in Slovenia. Public Health Nutr, 14(1):49-55.
6. Bjelica D, Krivokapic D, Doina Tanase G, et al (2013). The analysis of parents’ atti-tudes concerning the level of physical ac-tivity of their pre-school children. In: Pro-ceeding of the XVII International Scientific Con-ference „FIS Communications 2013“(151-160), Faculty of Sport and Physical Education: Nis, Serbia.
7. Jurak G, Sorić M, Starc G, et al (2015). School day and weekend patterns of physical activity in urban 11-year-olds: A cross-cultural comparison. Am J Hum Biol, 27(2):192–200.
8. Tomkinson GR, Carver KD, Atkinson F, et al (2018). European normative values for physical fitness in children and adoles-cents aged 9–17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries. Br J Sports Med, 52(22), 1445-56.
9. Bureau for Education Services (2004). In-formant about the nine-year primary school. Min-istry of Education and Bureau for Educa-tion Services: Podgorica, Montenegro. [In Montenegrin]
10. Bureau for Education Services (2009). Catalog of knowledge - subject program Physical education I, II, III, IV grade of secondary vocational school. Bureau for Education Services: Podgori-ca, Montenegro. [In Montenegrin]
11. Lipovina M. Elementary school "Lovćenski partizanski odred", Cetinje, Montenegro; Lagator L. High school "Gimnazija", Ce-tinje, Montenegro. Personal communica-tion, 2019.
12. Strategies. Available from: http://www.ms.gov.me/biblioteka/strategije [Accessed 12 Jun 2020].
13. Popovic S. University of Montenegro, Pod-gorica, Montenegro. Personal communi-cation, 2019.
14. Sukys S, Emeljanovas A, Gruodyte-Raciene R, et al (2019). Results from Lithuania’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. Int J Environ Res Pub-lic Health, 16(23): 4710.
15. Idrizović K, Vlahović A (2012). Diferencija motoričkog profila fudbalera kadeta i njihovih vršnjaka nesportista. U Zborniku radova Druge međunarodne konferencije “Sportske nauke i zdravlje” (57-68), Panevropski univerzitet "APEIRON": Banja Luka, Bona i Hercegovina.
16. Radulovic B, Krivokapic D (2013). Physical development and physical skills of four-teen years old pupils in Montenegro compared to the peers from European countries. Sport Mont, 11(37-38-39):218-24.
17. Radulovic B (2013). Monitoring of dance program effects, as the chosen sports ac-tivity in the physical education course, fo-cused on motor skills transformation of ninth grade pupils. Sport Mont, 11(37-38-39):225-31.
18. Morina B, Salihu H, Hadžić R (2015). Ho-mogeneity of Applied Eurofit Test Bat-tery with 13-Year-Old Pupils from Ko-sovo and Montenegro. Sport Science, 8(2):19‐21.
19. Ljubojevic M, Muratovic A, Bubanja M (2016). Effects of various physical educa-tion curriculum on motor skills in stu-dents of final grades in primary school. Sport Mont, 14(1):25-8.
20. Morina B, Salihu H, Hadžić R (2017). Relia-bility of Eurofit Test Battery with Chil-dren in Primary School. Acta Kinesiol, 11(Suppl 1):63-6.
21. Morina B, Georgiev G, Hadzic R (2018). Some Indicators of Fatness and Fitness in Kosovian and Montenegro Adoles-cents. Int J Morphol, 36(3):864–70.
22. Morina B, Tahiraj E, Bahtiri A, et al (2018). Comparative analysis of anthropometric body dimensions between primary school students from Kosovo and Mon-tenegro, in relation to their age. Int J Appl Exerc Physiol, 7(4):41-9.
23. Kankaras G. Elementary school "Jugoslavi-ja", Bar, Montenegro; Novovic, M. Ele-mentary school "Trpezi", Petnjica, Mon-tenegro. Personal communication, 2019.
24. Kankaras G. Elementary school "Jugoslavi-ja", Bar, Montenegro; Lagator, L. High school "Gimnazija", Cetinje, Montenegro; Novovic M. Elementary school "Trpezi", Petnjica, Montenegro. Personal commu-nication, 2019.
25. Sports Development Strategy in Montene-gro for the period 2018-2021. Year (2018). Available from: file:///C:/Users/PC/AppData/Local/Temp/11_83_28_06_2018.pdf [Accessed 16 July]. [In Montenegrin]
26. Aubert S, Aucouturier J, Ganiere C, et al (2018). Results from France’s 2018 Re-port Card on Physical Activity for Chil-dren and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S360-2.
27. Demetriou Y, Hebestreit A, Reimers AK, et al (2018). Results from Germany’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S363-5.
28. Aguilar-Farias N, Miranda-Marquez S, Sa-darangani KP, et al (2018). Results from Chile’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Ac-tivity for Children and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S331-2.
29. Akinroye KK, Adeniyi AF (2018). Results from Nigeria’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S393-4.
30. Barnes JD, Cameron C, Carson V, et al (2018). Results from Canada’s 2018 Re-port Card on Physical Activity for Chil-dren and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S328-30.
31. Gaba A, Rubin L, Badura P, et al (2018). Re-sults from the Czech Republic’s 2018 Re-port Card on Physical Activity for Chil-dren and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S338-40.
32. Sember V, Morrison SA, Jurak G, et al (2018). Results from Slovenia’s 2018 Re-port Card on Physical Activity for Chil-dren and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S404-5.
33. Abdeta C, Teklemariam Z, Deksisa A, et al (2018). Results from Ethiopia’s 2018 Re-port Card on Physical Activity for Chil-dren and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S353-4.
34. Silva DAS, Christofaro DGD, Ferrari GLD, et al (2018). Results from Brazil’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. J Phys Act Health, 15(S2):S323-5.
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| Issue | Vol 49 No 10 (2020) | |
| Section | National Report | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v49i10.4705 | |
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| PMID | 33346220 | |
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MASANOVIC B, POPOVIC S, BJELICA D, GARDASEVIC J. The 2018 National Report on Children’s and Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Physical Fitness for Montenegro. Iran J Public Health. 2020;49(10):1992-2000.
