A global research project dedicated to setting children up for a lifetime of healthy movement is being supported at the University of Alberta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The International Study of Movement Behaviours in the Early Years (SUNRISE) Coordinating Centre,<\/a> led by Dr. Valerie Carson<\/a>, will oversee data collection and analysis across more than 24 countries around the globe involving the movement behaviours of over 24,000 preschoolers.<\/p>\n Bringing together researchers from low, middle and high-income countries, the SUNRISE project measures physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep, development outcomes and various influencing factors among children aged three and four.<\/p>\n \u201cEarly childhood is a critical development period,\u201d notes Carson, a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf children aren\u2019t establishing healthy movement, sleep and screen-time patterns at this age, it can affect their long-term health, and it\u2019s much easier to set them up for success early than to try to change entrenched behaviours later.\u201d<\/p>\n Scientific studies published over the next few years from the collected data can contribute to a 2030 update of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines for Early Childhood Movement Behaviours<\/a>, as well as inform national and international practices and policies, and future research and interventions for young children.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Carson has received funding support for the University of Alberta SUNRISE Coordinating Centre fromthe Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation<\/a> through the Women and Children\u2019s Health Research Institute<\/a>, from Mitacs<\/a> and from the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A global research project dedicated to setting children up for a lifetime of healthy movement is being supported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,189392,84,31683,3182,273099,273100,61,273098],"class_list":["post-768583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-health","tag-movement","tag-physical-activity","tag-preschoolers","tag-sedentary-behaviour","tag-technology","tag-valerie-carson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}