Motor skill competence and moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity: a linear and non-linear cross-sectional analysis of eight pooled trials.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll studies received parental consent to collect device-based physical activity using ActiGraph accelerometers and motor skill competence using the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) in children aged 3–12 years. All studies received ethical approval from their institution. Relevant to this study, an ethics application was approved for the pooling of data with agreements between Deakin University and each institution involved (2020–091 Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee). Consent for publicationNA - No individual person’s data in any form is included in this manuscript. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding The pooling project did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. However, the individual studies’ funding is reported below, in alphabetical order of study: 1. FAST study (Deakin University). 2. GamesSkill study (Deakin University). 3. Global_MC study (Deakin University and DAAD German-Australia Funding and German Academic Exchange Service [57216707]. 4. HAPPY study (Deakin University for the wave included here). 5. INFANT study (National Health and Medical Research Council grants GNT425801 & GNT1008879). 6. PEPL (Australian Sports Commission; Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, State Government of Victoria; Cricket Australia, Deakin University). 7. SCORES (Hunter Medical Research Institute grant [HMRI 11–04]). 8. SkillPA study (Deakin University). SJJMV is supported by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. KDH is supported by a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (105929). NDR was supported by a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (101895) at the time of this work."