How long do little kids stand sitting still? This study is part of an ongoing effort to explore that question:
“The Influence of Minimum Sitting Period of the ActivPAL™ on the Measurement of Breaks in Sitting in Young Children,” Zubaida Alghaeed, John J. Reilly [pictured here, in adulthood], Sebastien F.M. Chastin, Anne Martin, Gwyneth Davies, James Y. Paton, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, 2013: e71854. The authors report:
“Chastin and Granat [in an earlier study]… found that the mean sitting bout length in free-living adults was 45 minutes. In contrast, and using a 10 s minimum sitting time for purposes of comparison, the majority of sitting bouts for the young children in the present study (study 1) lasted ≤8 minutes suggesting that the children studied predominantly accumulated their sitting time in short bouts.”
(Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.)