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dc.contributor.authorTortella, Patrizia
dc.contributor.authorHaga, Monika
dc.contributor.authorLorås, Håvard W.
dc.contributor.authorSigmundsson, Hermundur
dc.contributor.authorFumagalli, Guido
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-25T09:04:52Z
dc.date.available2020-03-25T09:04:52Z
dc.date.created2016-08-10T13:03:15Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationPLOS ONE. 2016, 11 (7), .en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2648487
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the effects and specificity of structured and unstructured activities played at the playground Primo Sport 0246 in Northern Italy on motor skill competence in five years old children. The playground was specifically designed to promote gross motor skills in preschool children; in this study 71 children from local kindergartens came to the park once a week for ten consecutive weeks and were exposed to 30 minutes of free play and 30 minutes of structured activities. Before and after the ten visits, each child completed nine tests to assess levels of motor skills, three for fine-motor skills and six for gross-motor skills. As control, motor skills were also assessed on 39 children from different kindergartens who did not come to the park. The results show that the experimental group who practiced gross-motor activities in the playground for 1 hour a week for 10 weeks improved significantly in 4 out of the 6 gross motor tasks and in none of the fine motor tasks. The data indicate that limited transfer occurred between tasks referring to different domains of motor competences while suggesting cross feeding for improvement of gross-motor skills between different exercises when domains related to physical fitness and strength of specific muscle groups are involved. These results are relevant to the issue of condition(s) appropriate for maintaining and developing motor skills in this age group as well as for the planning, organization and implementation of play and physical activities in kindergartens.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPLOS, Public Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160244
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleMotor Skill Development in Italian Pre-School Children Induced by Structured Activities in a Specific Playgrounden_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber15en_US
dc.source.volume11en_US
dc.source.journalPLOS ONEen_US
dc.source.issue7en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0160244
dc.identifier.cristin1371835
dc.description.localcodeCopyright: © 2016 Tortella et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
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