Swim, Strength, or Combined Programs: Effect on Health-Related Physical Fitness in Adolescents With Down Syndrome.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Print Date: 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2023-0170

Borja Suarez-Villadat, Kabir Sadarangani, Rui Manuel Corredeira, Mario Veiga, Ariel Villagra

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Abstract

The adolescent population with Down syndrome (DS) appears to show higher levels of body fat and lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness or muscle strength than their peers without disabilities. There is a need to create physical activity programs to improve these data. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of a 16-week swimming program, strength program, and combined program (swimming and strength training) on body composition and health-related physical fitness on adolescents with DS and to assess whether there are differences in the results of the different training programs. Forty-five adolescents (17 female and 28 male; average age 15.5 [1.53] years) with DS were recruited and randomized to three groups (swim [n = 15], strength [n = 15], and combined [n = 15]). Results showed that the swim group had significant improvements in all health-related physical fitness variables and there was an improvement in some body-composition variables (p < .05). The strength and combined groups obtained minor improvements in the variables analyzed. In summary, a 16-week swim program consisting of three sessions of 60 min is able to improve levels of body composition and health-related physical fitness in adolescents with DS. The swim training program seems to be more effective in improving body composition and health-related physical fitness than the strength or combined program. These findings could be useful in different special-education centers due to the predisposition shown by the population with DS to this sport modality.

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游泳、力量或综合项目：对唐氏综合症青少年健康相关体能的影响。

与没有残疾的同龄人相比，患有唐氏综合症（DS）的青少年似乎身体脂肪含量更高，心肺功能或肌肉力量水平更低。有必要制定体育锻炼计划来改善这些数据。本研究旨在确定为期16周的游泳项目、力量项目和综合项目（游泳和力量训练）对残疾青少年身体成分和健康相关体能的影响，并评估不同训练项目的结果是否存在差异。研究人员招募了45名患有DS的青少年（17名女性和28名男性；平均年龄15.5 [1.53]岁），并将他们随机分为三组（游泳组[n = 15]、力量组[n = 15]和综合组[n = 15]）。结果显示，游泳组在所有与健康相关的体能变量方面都有明显改善，在一些身体构成变量方面也有改善（P < .05）。力量组和综合组在所分析的变量中均有轻微改善。总之，为期 16 周、每次 60 分钟、每次 3 节课的游泳训练能够改善 DS 青少年的身体成分和与健康相关的体能水平。在改善身体成分和与健康相关的体能方面，游泳训练计划似乎比力量训练计划或综合训练计划更有效。这些研究结果对不同的特殊教育中心很有帮助，因为肢体瘫痪症患者对这种运动方式很感兴趣。

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

10.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.