Relationship of aerobic fitness and motor skills with memory and attention in preschoolers (Ballabeina): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

Table 2 Cross-sectional relationship between baseline aerobic fitness and motor skills with cognition (n = 245).

	Aerobic fitness [stages]
	β-Coeff.	95% CI	p-value	r³
Spatial working memory [no. of points]
Unadjusted model¹	0.30	0.12 to 0.47	0.001	0.22
Adjusted model²	0.12	-0.08 to 0.33	0.246	0.08
Attention score [standard nine values]
Unadjusted model¹	0.19	-0.09 to 0.47	0.850	0.10
Adjusted model²	0.25	0.02 to 0.49	0.036	0.15
	Agility [s]
	β-Coeff.	95% CI	p -value	r ³
Spatial working memory [no. of points]
Unadjusted model¹	-0.12	-0.17 to -0.06	<0.001	-0.27
Adjusted model²	-0.07	-0.13 to -0.02	0.013	-0.17
Attention score [standard nine values]
Unadjusted model¹	-0.10	-0.16 to -0.02	0.008	-0.18
Adjusted model²	-0.11	-0.19 to -0.03	0.005	-0.20
	Dynamic balance [steps]
	β-Coeff.	95% CI	p -value	r ³
Spatial working memory [no. of points]
Unadjusted model¹	0.17	0.02 to 0.3	0.024	0.14
Adjusted model²	0.02	-0.13 to 0.17	0.792	0.02
Attention score [standard nine values]
Unadjusted model¹	0.27	0.01 to 0.53	0.774	0.13
Adjusted model²	0.06	-0.11 to 0.24	0.452	0.06

Mixed linear regression analyses with preschool class (cluster) as random factor.
95%CI, 95% confidence interval; β-Coeff., β-Coefficient; s, seconds
¹ not adjusted
² adjusted for sex, age, BMI, migration status, parental education, native language and linguistic region
³ partial correlation coefficient between outcome and predictor variable.

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