Researcher A.V. Malinin¹
Researcher D.N. Pukhov¹
Dr. Biol. T.F. Abramova²
PhD T.V. Dolmatova^2
1FSBI «Saint-Petersburg scientific-research institute for physical culture», Saint-Petersburg
²Federal Science Center of Physical Culture and Sport (VNIIFK), Moscow

Objective of the study was to survey and analyze the school-aged children’s lifestyles, diets, oral hygiene and physical activity.
Methods and structure of the study Saint-Petersburg Physical Culture Research Institute (SPPCRI) contributes to the international Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) program and formally leads this project in the Russian Federation. The participating countries are expected to contribute to the ongoing international research under the HBSC program by anonymous surveys of the 11/ 13/ 15 years old school population run once in four years. The SPPCRI team has developed a special web service with an authorized access for the regional groups with a Russian version of the international questionnaire survey. The web service offers an accessible online survey form with the reported data stored in database, grouped, processed and analyzed. This study presents and analyzes the survey data of 2017-18.
The WHO offers the MVPA (moderate to vigorous physical activity) survey toolkit to rate group physical activity levels versus the minimal physical activity benchmarks, with the recommended minimal daily physical activity for school-aged children making one hour. The actual physical activity reported by school-aged children was rated versus the WHO minimum by the question how many days per week the children are physically active for at least 60 minutes a day.
We sampled for the questionnaire survey the 11/ 13/ 15 year-old schoolchildren (n=4765) of both sexes. The sample was split up into two groups based on the reported physically active days per week with the physical activity equal or exceeding the MVPA minimum of 60 minutes a day. The MVPA3 and MVPA7 groups included the students reporting physically active for the 60+min 3 days and 7 days a week, respectively. This grouping assumed that MVPA3 basically means three school physical education classes a week; and MVPA7 complements the school physical education classes with extra/ off-class sports/ physical activity forms.
Results and conclusion. The survey data and analyses found high contributions to the health culture of school-aged children from such healthy lifestyle elements as the healthy diets, good physical activity and commitment for physical education and sports in every age and gender subgroup.

Keywords: school-aged children, level of physical activity, diets, oral hygiene, physical activity, healthy lifestyle.

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