Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications in the English Language from SLOfit team members:

• Skandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports: How to design and establish a national school-based physical fitness monitoring and surveillance system for children and adolescents: A 10-step approach recommended by the FitBack network
• The Lancet: Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019 : a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
• Scientific reports: Secular trends in physical fitness of Slovenian boys and girls aged 7 to 15 years from 1989 to 2019 : a population-based study
• International journal of environmental research and public health: Do fitter children better assess their physical activity with questionnaire than less fit children?
• International journal of environmental research and public health: Reliability and validity of Slovenian versions of IPAQ-SF, GPAQ, and EHIS-PAQ for assessing physical activity and sedentarism of adults
• Frontiers in public health: SLOfit Lifelong : a model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan
• Sports medicine: Top 10 international priorities for physical fitness research and surveillance among children and adolescents : a twin‑panel delphi study
• Sport sciences for health: Usability evaluation of the international FitBack web portal for monitoring youth fitness
• Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports: Secular trends in skill- related physical fitness among Slovenian children and adolescents from 1983 to 2014
• PloS one: Adult height prediction using the growth curve comparison method
• PloS one: The dilemma of physical activity questionnaires : fitter people are less prone to over reporting
• Frontiers in psychology. Can primary school mathematics performance be predicted by longitudinal changes in physical fitness and activity indicators?
• Journal of exercise science and fitness: Challenges of social change : the 2021 Republic of Slovenia report card on physical activity of children and adolescents
• British journal of sports medicine: European fitness landscape for children and adolescents : updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack network
• Pediatric pulmonology: Physical fitness trajectories from childhood to adolescence inextremely preterm children: a longitudinal cohort study
• Obesity: Effectiveness of a population-scaled, school-based physical activity intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity
• Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine: Differences between barefoot and shod performance in selected fitness tests in adolescents
• The Lancet regional health: Physical fitness among children with diverse weight status during and after the COVID-19 pandemic : a population-wide, cohort study based on the Slovenian physical fitness surveillance system (SLOfit)
• Journal of strength and conditioning research: Centile reference curves of the SLOfit physical fitness tests for school-aged children and adolescents
• Journal of exercise science and fitness: Challenges of social change : the 2021 Republic of Slovenia report card on physical activity of children and adolescents
• Frontiers in psychology: The dynamics of burnout among Slovenian primary school teachers over the school year in relation to their perceptions of various predictors of burnout in the school context
• Electronics: Explained learning and hyperparameter optimization of ensemble estimator on the bio-psycho-social features of children and adolescents
• BMC Public Health: An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union
• Frontiers in Psychology: Are Family Physical Activity Habits Passed on to Their Children?
• Scandivan Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports: Secular trends in muscular fitness from 1983 to 2014 among Slovenian children and adolescents
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Validity and Reliability of IPAQ-SF and GPAQ for Assessing Sedentary Behaviour in Adults in the European Union: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Obesity Facts: Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6–9 Years in 25 Countries: An Analysis within the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) 2015–2017
• Frontiers in Physiology: Assessment of Secular Trends and Health Risk in Pediatric Cardiorespiratory Fitness From the Republic of Slovenia
• Frontiers in Public Health: A COVID-19 Crisis in Child Physical Fitness: Creating a Barometric Tool of Public Health Engagement for the Republic of Slovenia
• European Journal of Sport Science: Physical activity, screen time and the COVID-19 school closures in Europe – An observational study in 10 countries
• BMC Public Health: Associations of mode and distance of commuting to school with cardiorespiratory fitness in Slovenian schoolchildren: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Obesity Reviews: Comparative effectiveness of school-based interventions targeting physical activity, physical fitness or sedentary behaviour on obesity prevention in 6- to 12-year-old children: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Frontiers in Public Health: Secular Trends of Physical Fitness in Twenty-Five Birth Cohorts of Slovenian Children: A Population-Based Study
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Validity and Reliability of International Physical Activity Questionnaires for Adults across EU Countries: Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
• Scandivan Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports: Responding to a global pandemic: Republic of Slovenia on maintaining physical activity during self-isolation
• Journal of Sport and Health Science: Physical activity recommendations during the coronavirus disease-2019 virus outbreak
• Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica: SLOfit surveillance system of somatic and motor development of children and adolescents: Upgrading the Slovenian Sports Educational Chart
• Scientific Reports: Increasing trends in childhood overweight have mostly reversed: 30 years of continuous surveillance of Slovenian youth
• Frontiers in Public Health: Children's Physical Activity, Academic Performance, and Cognitive Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Slovenian Journal of Public Health: Changes in the Growth and Development of Adolescents in a Country in Socio-Economic Transition 1993–2013
• Plos One: Decline of physical activity in early adolescence: A 3-year cohort study
• Anthropological Notebooks: Differences in body height between the contemporary Western Balkan children and the WHO growth references core sample

Selected publications in the Slovene Language:

• Revija šport: Uporabniški vidiki šolskih športnih dvoran
• Revija Šport: Priloga Revije Šport ob 30-letnici SLOfit
• Revija Šport: Spremembe v 24-urnem gibalnem vedenju slovenskih najstnikov v času izolacijskih ukrepov ob prvem valu epidemije COVID-19
• Revija Šport: Vpliv omejitev gibanja za obvladovanje širjenja virusa SARS-CoV-2 na 24-urno gibalno vedenje in telesno zmogljivost otrok in mladostnikov
• Revija Šport: Ali smo lahko zaskrbljeni zaradi zmanjšanja telesne dejavnosti naših otrok v zadnjem vzgojno-izobraževalnem obdobju?
• Revija Šport: Telesna pripravljenost kot pomemben dejavnik pozitivne telesne samopodobe slovenskih mladostnikov
• Revija Šport: Spremenimo slabo prakso "dostavljanja" otrok v šolo
• Revija Šport: Slovenski otroci so med telesno najbolj dejavnimi na svetu