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• Title: Parental Influence and the Attraction to Physical Activity for Youths Who Are Visually Impaired at a Residential-Day School (Research Report) (Report)
• Author : Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 232 KB

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Staying physically active is important for the health of all people (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2000). The lack of attention to fitness has contributed to an obesity crisis in the United States that is so significant that obesity is now considered one of the most important public health problems of our time (Simons-Morton, Obarzanek, & Cutler, 2006). Less is known about obesity in low-incidence disability populations, such as people who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision), but the levels of reported physical activity for this population are alarmingly low (Brown et al., 2003; Capella-McDonnall, 2007; Holbrook, Caputo, Perry, Fuller, & Morgan, 2009; Lieberman, Stuart, Hand, & Robinson, 2006). It has been shown that youths who are visually impaired have significantly lower levels of physical fitness and activity than do youths who are sighted (Harrison, 2006; Kozub & Oh, 2004; Lieberman, Byrne, Mattern, Watt, & Fernandez-Vivio, 2010; Longmuir & Bar-Or, 2000). Youths with visual impairments also lag behind sighted youths in actual motor skills (Aki, Atasavun, Turan, & Kayihan, 2007; Lieberman, Schedlin, & Pierce, 2009). Physical activity levels of youths have also been linked to parental influences (Dempsey, Kimiecik, & Horn, 1993). Ayanvazoglu, Oh, and Kozub (2006) found this to be true for participants who were visually impaired and reported that the parents of youths with the highest rates of participation in physical activities were the most involved with their children. Conversely, overprotectiveness and lower expectations of parents and teachers contributed to the formation of sedentary tendencies among children with visual impairments (Bishop, 2000; Fiorini, Stanton, & Reid, 1996; Kiavina & Roswal, 2003; Lieberman, Houston-Wilson, & Kozub, 2002).

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