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Accurately monitoring child and adolescent physical fitness is critical when designing effective public health interventions and strategies. This article aims to provide an overview of the FitBack platform and the health-related criteria that support the reporting system.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Four methodological phases were used to create the FitBack platform. First, a review of existing European fitness databases was conducted to identify common fitness tests and methodologies within a European framework. Second, investigators collated data to create European-level fitness norms, health-related criteria, and health-oriented educational resources dedicated to improving child fitness levels. Third, guidance on how to create one\u2019s own fitness monitoring and surveillance system was created based on good practice examples. The FitBack platform was then piloted and launched based on data received from stakeholders who responded to \u22652 rounds of consultation dialogues.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The final version of online platform, with special focus on newly developed Fitback health-related fitness criteria, are communicated herein.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The FitBack web platform is a first-step towards creating a standardised, person-centred, multi-national fitness surveillance system for children, bridging existing gaps between European political recommendations, individual member states, and harmonious cooperation between sectors. This article also provided the detailed age- and sex-specific health-related fitness cut-points that are used by the FitBack platform, and that could be useful for researchers, practitioners as well as fitness monitoring systems.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2024.08.15.24311927","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,17]],"date-time":"2024-08-17T19:35:10Z","timestamp":1723923310000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Development of the FitBack online platform: enhancing global child fitness assessment, health-related interpretation, and surveillance"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6835-1438","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maroje","family":"Sori\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3445-330X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shawnda A.","family":"Morrison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2001-1121","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco B.","family":"Ortega","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5103-6236","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Attilio","family":"Carraro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2037-9217","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tam\u00e1s","family":"Cs\u00e1nyi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Bojan","family":"Lesko\u0161ek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6931-3932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jarek","family":"M\u00e4estu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7986-1561","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sne\u017eana","family":"Radisavljevi\u0107-Jani\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6230-6027","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lu\u00eds B.","family":"Sardinha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5376-3197","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Claude","family":"Scheuer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9822-0308","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gregor","family":"Starc","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1771-3977","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tuija H.","family":"Tammelin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4269-0970","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gregor","family":"Jurak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"2024082011100934000_2024.08.15.24311927v1.1","first-page":"126","article-title":"Physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness: definitions and distinctions for health-related research","volume":"100","year":"1985","journal-title":"Public Health Rep [Internet"},{"issue":"12","key":"2024082011100934000_2024.08.15.24311927v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"909","DOI":"10.1136\/bjsm.2008.056499","article-title":"Predictive validity of health- related fitness in youth: a systematic review","volume":"43","year":"2009","journal-title":"Br J Sports Med [Internet"},{"issue":"10","key":"2024082011100934000_2024.08.15.24311927v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2100","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apmr.2018.01.008","article-title":"Muscular Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in an Apparently Healthy Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Data From Approximately 2 Million Men and Women","volume":"99","year":"2018","journal-title":"Arch Phys Med Rehabil [Internet"},{"key":"2024082011100934000_2024.08.15.24311927v1.4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ross R , Blair SN , Arena R , Church TS , Despr\u00e9s JP , Franklin BA , et al. 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