Walking in School-Aged Children in a Dual-Task Paradigm Is Related to Age But Not to Cognition, Motor Behavior, Injuries, or Psychosocial Functioning.
- Hagmann-von Arx P Department of Psychology, University of Basel , Basel, Switzerland.
- Manicolo O Department of Psychology, University of Basel , Basel, Switzerland.
- Lemola S Department of Psychology, University of Warwick , Coventry, UK.
- Grob A Department of Psychology, University of Basel , Basel, Switzerland.
- 2016-03-26
Published in:
- Frontiers in psychology. - 2016
dual-task walking
executive functions
gait
intelligence
psychosocial functioning
school-aged children
English
Age-dependent gait characteristics and associations with cognition, motor behavior, injuries, and psychosocial functioning were investigated in 138 typically developing children aged 6.7-13.2 years (M = 10.0 years). Gait velocity, normalized velocity, and variability were measured using the walkway system GAITRite without an additional task (single task) and while performing a motor or cognitive task (dual task). Assessment of children's cognition included tests for intelligence and executive functions; parents reported on their child's motor behavior, injuries, and psychosocial functioning. Gait variability (an index of gait regularity) decreased with increasing age in both single- and dual-task walking. Dual-task gait decrements were stronger when children walked in the motor compared to the cognitive dual-task condition and decreased with increasing age in both dual-task conditions. Gait alterations from single- to dual-task conditions were not related to children's cognition, motor behavior, injuries, or psychosocial functioning.
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- DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00352
- PMID 27014158
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- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/93309
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