Systematic review of the relationships between combinations of movement behaviours and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years)

Table 2 The relationship between movement behaviours and motor development

No. of studies	Design	Quality assessment					No. of participants	Absolute effect	Quality
No. of studies	Design	Risk of bias	Inconsistency	Indirectness	Imprecision	Other	No. of participants	Absolute effect	Quality
Mean baseline ages were 3.3 and 4.2聽years. Data were collected by clustered RCT (n聽=聽2). Motor development was assessed via the Movement Assessment Battery for Children and the Test of Gross Motor Development鈥�2.
2	Cluster RCT^a	Serious risk of bias^b	No serious inconsistency	Serious indirectness^c	No serious imprecision	None	1245	厂叠听+听笔础: The movement behaviour interventions were favourably associated with overall motor skills in 2 studies [27, 31].	LOW^d

LPA light-intensity physical activity, MVPA moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity, RCT randomized controlled trial, TPA total physical activity
^a Includes 2 cluster RCTs [27, 31]
^b Serious risk of bias. In 1 study sex was not adjusted for in the analysis [31]
^c Serious indirectness. The sedentary behaviour components of the interventions were minimal in both interventions, which could have caused a risk for indirectness. However, significant reductions in sedentary time were observed in 1 study [31]. Additionally, the intervention effects may have caused a risk for indirectness. In 1 study the intervention significantly decreased sedentary behaviour and increased LPA, but had no effect on MVPA [31]. In the other study [27], the intervention had no effect on sedentary time and TPA, while the control group showed improvements in MVPA
^d Quality of evidence was downgraded from 鈥渉igh鈥� to 鈥渓ow鈥� due to serious risk of bias and serious indirectness

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