Highlights
- •20mSRT performance is favourably associated with aspects of physiological, physical, psychosocial and cognitive health in children and youth.
- •The 20mSRT could be used as a holistic health indicator to help identify children and youth at risk of poor health.
- •20mSRT performance could be used as a population health indicator to compare the health of children and youth worldwide.
Abstract
Objective
This systematic review aimed to summarize research that assessed the associations
between 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT) performance and indicators of physiological, psychosocial
and cognitive health among school-aged children and youth.
Design
Systematic review.
Methods
Five online databases were used to identify peer-reviewed studies published from 1980
to 2016. Studies were included if they matched these criteria: population (children
and youth with a mean age of 5–17 years and/or in Grades 1–12), intervention/exposure
(performance on the 20mSRT), and outcomes (health indicators: adiposity, cardiometabolic
biomarkers, cognition, mental health, psychosocial health, self-esteem and physical
self-perception, quality of life and wellbeing, bone health, musculoskeletal fitness,
motor skill development, and injuries and/or harm). Narrative syntheses were applied
to describe the results. A lack of homogeneity precluded a meta-analysis approach.
Results
Overall, 142 studies that determined an association between 20mSRT performance and
a health indicator were identified, representing 319,311 children and youth from 32
countries. 20mSRT performance was favourably associated with indicators of adiposity,
and some indicators of cardiometabolic, cognitive, and psychosocial health in boys
and girls. Fewer studies examined the relationship between 20mSRT performance and
measures of quality of life/wellbeing, mental health and motor skill development,
and associations were generally inconsistent. The quality of the evidence ranged from
very low to moderate across health indicators.
Conclusion and Implications
These findings support the use of the 20mSRT as a holistic indicator of population
health in children and youth.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 08, 2017
Accepted:
August 1,
2017
Received in revised form:
June 14,
2017
Received:
January 22,
2017
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