Contextual factors and motor skills in indigenous amazon forest and urban indigenous children

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Marcelo Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Valentini, Nadia Cristina, Nobre, Glauber Carvalho, Benda, Rodolfo Novellino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/262417
• topic: Habilidade motora; Desenvolvimento infantil; Grupos étnicos; Povos indígenas; Crianças; Child development; Motor skills; Ethnical groups; Children; Indigenous peoples

This study investigated the contextual factors, motor performance, and body mass index across indigenous land children, indigenous urban children, and non-indigenous urban children. A number of 153 children, both sexes (71 girls, 46.4%), from 8 to 10 years were assessed. The Test of Motor Gross Development-3 was utilized. Indigenous land children showed higher motor performance (η²ρ = 0.37 and η²ρ = 0.19 locomotor and object control, respectively) than indigenous urban children (p < 0.03) and non-indigenous urban children (p < 0.01); Indigenous urban children showed higher motor performance than non-indigenous urban children (p < 0.01). Body mass index was similar across groups (η²ρ = 0,02; p = 0.15). Motor performance of indigenous land children was explained by the contextual factors that lead to a more active lifestyle, unsupervised free time, and play outside. In urban areas, behavior was similar, and although indigenous urban children kept some play tradition, it was not strong enough to be a protective factor for the motor performance.