Reliability of the PREFIT fitness-test battery in Chilean preschoolers
The PREFIT battery is appropriate for field application among Chilean preschool children, except for the one-leg stance test, which demonstrated inadequate reliability and proportional bias. Reporting MDC95 enables the interpretation of significant change within educational and intervention contexts.
Authors
- Johana Soto-Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-5447)
- María José Arias Téllez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6738-6196)
- Paz Fernández-Valero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-8253)
- Silvia Castro-Cisterna
- Barbara Leyton-Dinamarca
- Francisco B. Ortega
- Juliana Kain
Institutions
- Universidad Mayor (CL)
- Universidad de Granada (ES)
- Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins (CL)
- University of the Americas (CL)
- University of Chile (CL)
- University of Jyväskylä (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Pediatrics
- Published
- 2026-01-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2025.1654731
- Primary Topic
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
- Universidad de Playa Ancha
- Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo