24-hour movement behaviours, health and wellbeing project

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24-hour movement behaviours, health and wellbeing

DAY24-NW (Database of 24-hour Accelerometer Data in Youth – North-West)

Project lead

Professor Stuart Fairclough

Professor of Physical Activity Health & Wellbeing

Project team

Dr Mhairi MacDonald

Lecturer in Physical Education and Children’s Physical Activity

Dr Richard Tyler

Senior Lecturer in Children’s Movement Behaviours and Health

Professor Lynne Boddy

Liverpool John Moores University

Project information

24-hour movement behaviours represent the time spent each day sleeping, engaged in sedentary behaviours (sitting, lying), and doing physical activity. The inter-play between these behaviours influences the various indicators of health and wellbeing in different ways. Wearable devices such as accelerometers can capture these 24-hour movement behaviours over multiple days and weeks. This project pools accelerometer data from northwest England children and adolescents and harmonises it with sociodemographic and health data to look at relationships between movement behaviours metrics, patterns of physical activity, and health.