Vítor P Lopes

Biographic Data

ID6606849
NAMEVítor P Lopes
GIVEN NAMESVítor P
FAMILY NAMELopes
SIGNATURELOPES V P
AFFILIATIONSPolytechnic Institute of Bragança
ORCID0000-0003-1599-2180
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) Scoring Method

    Open AccessLuís Paulo Rodrigues, Carlos Luz et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    The Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) is a quantitative test battery that assesses motor competence across the whole lifespan. It is composed of three sub-scales: locomotor, stability, and manipulative, each of them assessed by two different objectively measured tests. The MCA construct validity for children and adolescents, having normative values from 3 to 23 years of age, and the configural invariance between age groups, were recently establis…

  • Siblings’ Influence on the Motor Competence of Preschoolers

    Open AccessLuís Paulo Rodrigues, Carlos Luz et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    The number of single-child families has been rising steadily in recent years, resulting in a childhood absent of sibling relationships. Being an only child has been shown to have a negative impact on physical fitness, somatic fitness, and motor development. In this study, we aimed to understand how living with and without siblings can impact the motor competence of children. One hundred and sixty-one children (87 boys, 74 girls) from 3.0 to 6.0 y…

  • Non-linear relationships between the BMI and physical fitness in Polish adolescents

    Open AccessJanusz Kwieciński, Jan M Konarski et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    Performances on fitness tests varied with weight status. Relationships between performances and the BMI were curvilinear except for the distance run and flexibility in girls

  • Linear and nonlinear relationships between body mass index and physical fitness in Brazilian children and adolescents

    Open AccessVítor P Lopes, Marco A Cossio‐bolaño et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2017

    The association between BMI and physical fitness is nonlinear in the majority of its components, and those with lower and higher BMI had poorer fitness

  • Motor Competence and its Effect on Positive Developmental Trajectories of Health

    Open AccessLeah E Robinson, David F Stodden et al.ARTICLESports Medicine2015

  • Associations between sedentary behavior and motor coordination in children

    Open AccessLuís Lopes, Rute Santos et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2012

    OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between objectively measured sedentary behavior (SB) and motor coordination (MC) in Portuguese children, accounting for physical activity (PA), accelerometer wear time, waist-to-height ratio, and mother's education level. METHODS: A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted on 213 children (110 girls and 103 boys) aged 9-10 in the north of Portugal during the spring of 2010.…

  • Total body percentage and motor coordination among Portuguese schoolchildren

    Open AccessLuís Lopes, Rute Santos et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2012

    Children’s motor coordination may affect their activity pattern and thereby influence their bodyfatness. The aim of the present study was to analyse the relationship between motor coordination and total body fat percentage, in a Portuguese sample of schoolchildren aged 9–12 years. Method: The sample comprised 596 urban schoolchildren (girls 46?9%), aged 9–12 years (mean 9?61 ( SD 0?55) years) from North of Portugal. Total body fat percentage was …

  • Physical growth of schoolchildren from the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Open AccessDartagnan Pinto Guedes, José Arlen Beltrão et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2010

    The body weight-for-age and height-for-age percentiles of schoolchildren population in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil differed substantially from those referenced