Akira Kyan

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine School of Health Sciences, University of the Ryukyus
: (Concurrent)Associate Professor, Graduate School of Health Sciences
: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Medicine Public Health, Kyoto University
: The Institute of Regional Study, Okinawa University

Degree: 博士（保健学）(Mar, 2019, 琉球大学大学院)
修士（教育学）(Mar, 2016, 琉球大学大学院)
修士（文学）(Mar, 2021, 岐阜女子大学大学院)

Contact information: akyanmed.u-ryukyu.ac.jp
Researcher number: 40845343
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8134-8687
J-GLOBAL ID: 201901012780760404
researchmap Member ID: B000352883

External link: https://hpsh-ryukyu.com/

【資格】

日本疫学会認定　疫学専門家（登録番号：CE24-024）

NPO法人日本デジタルアーキビスト資格認定機構　上級デジタルアーキビスト（認定証番号：A000167）

幼児体育初級公認指導員

公益財団法人日本体育協会公認　スポーツリーダー（認定番号：215 LI047 000002）

【免許】

中学校教諭（保健体育）専修免許

高等学校教諭（保健体育）専修免許

小学校教諭一種免許

Research Interests

運動; 体育; スポーツ; 身体活動; 座位行動; 睡眠; ソーシャルジェットラグ; 24-hr movement behavior; 健康教育; 学校教育; 社会経済状態; 格差; ソーシャルキャピタル; 体力; 運動能力; 健康; 発育発達; 学力; 認知機能; 幸福; ウェルビーイング

Research Areas

Major Research History

Apr, 2019 - Oct, 2023

Visiting researcher, Health promotion, University of the Ryukyus
Apr, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Graduate School of Human Development and Environment Department of Human Development, Kobe University
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Research Associate, Child education, Okinawa Women's Junior College

Education

Oct, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Graduate School of Cultural Development, Gifu Women's University
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Health Promotion & Development, Graduate School of Health Sciences, University of the Ryukyus
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Physical & health education, Education, University of the Ryukyu
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

Physical & health education, Education, University of the Ryukyus

Major Committee Memberships

Oct, 2023 - Present

渉外委員会, 日本運動疫学会
Oct, 2023 - Present

学術委員会, 日本運動疫学会
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

評議員（第8期）, 日本発育発達学会

Awards

Nov, 2024

award, Changes in the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among Japanese adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: 2002-2021, The Japanese Association of School Health

Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi, Akira Kyan
Jan, 2023

Encouragement Award, Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion
May, 2022

Encouragement Award, Validity of Japanese version of a two-item 60-minute moderate-to-vigorous physical activity screening tool for compliance with WHO physical activity recommendations, Japan Society of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine

Kyan Akira, Tanaka Shigeho, Takakura Minoru, Olds Timothy, Schranz Natasha, Tanaka Chiaki
Nov, 2021

学会賞, 小学生の永久歯齲蝕（うしょく）と社会経済因子および学校給食後の歯みがき時間設定状況との関連, 日本学校保健学会

我部杏奈, 高倉実, 宮城政也, 喜屋武享
Sep, 2021

Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion

Yoshito Kamiya, Akira Kyan, Noboru Kinjo, Tadashi Nakasone, Minoru Takakura
Oct, 2020

第79回日本公衆衛生学会優秀ポスター賞, 沖縄県Ａ市の乳幼児における社会経済的状況と生活習慣との関連, 日本公衆衛生学会

神谷義人, 喜屋武享, 高倉実, 金城昇, 仲宗根正
Mar, 2019

President's Award, University of the Ryukyus

Akira Kyan

Major Papers

Changes in the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among Japanese adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: 2002-2021

Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi, Akira Kyan

School Health, 19 14-25, Apr, 2023 Peer-reviewedLast author
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Socioeconomic Inequality of Health Behavior Among Japanese Adolescents: A 2-Year Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura

Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 20(6) 538-546, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Associations between 24-h movement behaviors and self-rated health: a representative sample of school-aged children and adolescents in Okinawa, Japan

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi

Public Health, 213 117-123, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Socioeconomic inequalities in toothbrushing behaviours in young children: a children’s lifestyle survey in a representative population of A city, Okinawa prefecture, Japan

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Yoshito Kamiya, Noboru Kinjo, Tadashi Nakasone

European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry, 23(6) 969-977, Sep 5, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Socioeconomic inequalities in physical activity among Japanese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura

Public Health, 207 7-13, Jun, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
A narrative review of the relationship between early-life physical activity and later-life cognitive function

Toru Ishihara, Akira Kyan

The Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 11(3) 137-147, May 25, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvited
Validity of Japanese version of a two-item 60-minute moderate-to-vigorous physical activity screening tool for compliance with WHO physical activity recommendations

Akira Kyan, Shigeho Tanaka, Minoru Takakura, Timothy Olds, Natasha Schranz, Chiaki Tanaka

The Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 10(2) 99-107, Mar 25, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Time trends of socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent smoking in Okinawa, Japan, 2008–2016: a repeated cross-sectional study

Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi, Akira Kyan

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 26(1) 24-24, Feb, 2021 Peer-reviewedLast author
Validation of the Physical Activity Questions in the World Health Organization Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey Using Accelerometer Data in Japanese Children and Adolescents.

Chiaki Tanaka, Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Tim Olds, Natasha Schranz, Shigeho Tanaka

Journal of physical activity & health, 18(2) 151-156, Feb 1, 2021 Peer-reviewed
The relative association of collective efficacy in school and neighborhood contexts with adolescent alcohol use.

Takakura M, Miyagi M, Ueji M, Kobayashi M, Kurihara A, Kyan A

Journal of epidemiology, 29(10) 384-390, Oct, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Effects of the active lesson program on academic achievement and physical activity: a systematic review

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura

Japanese Journal of Health Education and Promotion, 27(3) 229-245, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Mediating effect of aerobic fitness on the association between physical activity and academic achievement among adolescents: A cross-sectional study in Okinawa, Japan

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi

Journal of Sports Sciences, 37(11) 1242-1249, Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Does Physical Fitness Affect Academic Achievement among Japanese Adolescents? A Hybrid Approach for Decomposing Within-Person and Between-Persons Effects

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(9) 1901-1901, Sep 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Fundamentals of systematic reviews

Akira Kyan

Japanese Journal of Health Education and Promotion, 32(2) 118-124, Jun, 2024 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
身体活動を取り入れた教科学習プログラム

喜屋武享

子どもと発育発達, 21(1) 20-24, Apr 1, 2023 Invited
Disparities in physical activity based on region and socio-economic status

松下宗洋, 喜屋武享, 鎌田真光

アンチ・エイジング医学, 19(5), 2023
子どもの身体活動を取り巻く諸課題とその解決に向けた新しい提案

喜屋武享

日本健康運動指導士会報, 188(11月) 1-7, Nov, 2022 InvitedLead author
コラムリレー

日本体育・スポーツ・健康学会若手の会, Jul, 2020 InvitedLead author
沖縄地域資料デジタルアーカイブと還元情報の記録を可能にするメタデータの構成

加治工尚子, 後藤忠彦, 加藤真由美, 仲里康雄, 喜屋武享, 又吉斎

岐阜女子大学デジタルアーカイブ研究所テクニカルレポート, 5(1) 45-50, Mar 10, 2020
沖縄県中学生における学校連結性と学力の関連性について

宮城政也, 高倉実, 喜屋武享

日本健康教育学会誌, 27(Suppl.) 109-109, Jun, 2019
Praise Focused Physical Education in Primary School Upper Grades on Motivation to Exercise: Mixed Method Analysis in a Lesson Introducing Hurdles and the Long Jump Combination Event

小林稔, 具志堅太一, 嘉数健悟, 佐藤正伸, 砂川龍馬, 喜屋武享

教育学部紀要 = Annual Report of The Faculty of Education, 52 185-197, Mar 1, 2019
Request to teacher training school on physical play guidance in Okinawa

島袋桂, 山城眞紀子, 真栄城勉, 喜屋武享

沖縄キリスト教短期大学紀要 = Journal of Okinawa Christian Junior College, (48) 95-103, Jan, 2019
Status of physical play at nursery school and kindergarten in Okinawa

島袋桂, 山城眞紀子, 真栄城勉, 喜屋武享, 上間達也

沖縄キリスト教短期大学紀要 = Journal of Okinawa Christian Junior College, (48) 87-93, Jan, 2019
Longitudinal relationships of physical activity and aerobic fitness with academic achievement in Japanese adolescents

Kyan Akira, Takakura Minoru, Miyagi Masaya, Kobayashi Minoru

Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 15(10) S161-S162, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Associations of social cohesion in neighborhood and school with compliance to physical activity recommendations among Japanese adolescents

Minoru Takakura, Miyagi Masaya, Ueji Masaru, Kobayashi Minoru, Kurihara Atsushi, Kyan Akira

Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 15(10) S161-S162, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
中学生の部活動参加は身体的・精神的健康の改善につながるか? 縦断研究

喜屋武享, 高倉実, 宮城政也, 小林稔

日本健康教育学会誌, 26(Suppl.) 112-112, Jun, 2018
社会経済的状況と子どもの肥満、学力、体力の関連性は、発達段階で異なるのか?

小林稔, 高倉実, 宮城政也, 喜屋武享

日本健康教育学会誌, 26(Suppl.) 115-115, Jun, 2018
学校力は高校生の性行動における社会格差を緩衝するか?

高倉実, 宮城政也, 小林稔, 上地勝, 栗原淳, 喜屋武享

日本健康教育学会誌, 26(Suppl.) 124-124, Jun, 2018
Study of Actual Lifestyle of Junior High School Students in Northern Okinawa and Associated Factors Based on Their Health, Academic Skill with Focus on Single Parent Household

Kobayashi Minoru, Agarie Hiroshi, Kyan Akira, Shimabukuro Kei, Uema Tatsuya

高度教職実践専攻（教職大学院）紀要, (2) 93-106, Mar 9, 2018
Application of Relaxation Techniques for Junior College Students : Introducing Stress Management Approach

石垣愛一郎, 喜屋武享

沖縄女子短期大学紀要, (31) 111-118, Mar, 2018
A study of "children of concern" by physical play in Okinawa

島袋桂, 真栄城勉, 山城眞紀子, 島袋愛, 喜屋武享

琉球大学教育学部紀要, 92 255-283, Feb, 2018
中学生における行動体力と学力の関連性について

宮城政也, 高倉実, 喜屋武享

学校保健研究, 59(Suppl.) 142-142, Nov, 2017
高校生における個人・集団レベルの学校連結性と主観的健康との関連について

我部杏奈, 高倉実, 宮城政也, 上地勝, 小林稔, 栗原淳, 喜屋武享

学校保健研究, 59(Suppl.) 178-178, Nov, 2017

Books and Other Publications

Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behavior of the Japanese Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Akira Kyan

Oct, 2024
文武両道は成り立つ③：アクティブ・レッスン・プログラムのすすめ

喜屋武享

大衆館書店, Jun, 2021
文武両道は成り立つ② アクティブ・レッスン・プログラムの例

喜屋武享

大衆館書店, May, 2021
文武両道は成り立つ① 体力向上は学力向上に寄与する！？

喜屋武享

大衆館書店, Apr, 2021

Presentations

School Comprehensive Physical Activity Promotion Program based on the WHO Health Promoting Schools Framework

Akira Kyan

Jul 7, 2024 Invited
Physical activity programs in primary schools

Akira Kyan

The 25th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Exercise Epidemiology, Jun 25, 2023 Invited
3軸加速度計で測定した前思春期児童の身体活動量学校包括型身体活動促進プログラム研究のベースラインデータ

喜屋武享, 島袋桂, 喜屋武ゆりか, 宮城政也, 仲座正, 高倉実

体力科学, Jun, 2023, (一社)日本体力医学会
沖縄県の幼児における社会経済状態と24 時間の日常生活行動との関連：SUNRISE study

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Shigeho Tanaka, Masayuki Okuda, Shinpei Okada, John J Reilly, Mark S Tremblay, Anthony D Okely, Chiaki Tanaka

Mar 18, 2023
Pre-adolescents' physical activity levels via triaxial accelerometers: baseline data from a study of a comprehensive school-based physical activity program

Akira Kyan, Kei Shimabukuro, Yurika Ganaha, Masaya Miyagi, Minoru Takakura

Mar 11, 2023
Characteristics of those willing to walk for 10 minutes or less in the working generation

Yoshito Kamiya, Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura

Feb 3, 2023
Socioeconomic disparities in high school students' sexual behavior in relation to collective efficacy of school and neighborhood

Minoru Takakura, Akira Kyan, Masaya Miyagi

Feb 3, 2023
Does physical activity of adolescent students buffer socioeconomic disparities in physical fitness and exercise capacity?

Akira Kyan, Takakura Minoru, Miyagi Masaya

Feb 3, 2023
Do economic inequalities in health behaviors among youth differ before and after the COVID-19 pandemic?

Akira Kyan

Oct 8, 2022
Intergenerational transmission of poverty and children’s lifestyle habits in Okinawa, Japan

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Yoshito Kamiya, Noboru Kinjo, Minoru Kobayashi, Tadashi Nakasone

15th European Public Health Conference 2022, Sep 9, 2022, European Public Health Association
Active lesson programs to promote physical activity and improve cognitive function and academic achievement

Akira Kyan

Aug 25, 2022 Invited
Travel Behavior and BMI in the Working Generation

Yoshito Kamiya, Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura

Jul, 2022
Trends in current alcohol use among Japanese adolescents by sociodemographic groups

Minoru Takakura, Akira Kyan, Masaya Miyagi, Minoru Kobayashi

14th European Public Health Conference 2021, Oct 20, 2021
Adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines among Japanese elementary and junior high school students

Akira Kyan, Minoru Takakura, Masaya Miyagi, Minoru Kobayashi

14th European Public Health Conference 2021, Oct 20, 2021
体力・運動能力と学力の同時向上を目指したアクティブ・レッスン・プログラム

Akira Kyan

Sep 19, 2021
育児中の女性における中学３年時の家庭の経済状況と現在の自尊感情との関連

神谷義人, 喜屋武享, 金城昇, 仲宗根正, 高倉実

日本健康教育学会, Sep, 2021
沖縄県A市の乳幼児における社会経済的状況と生活習慣との関連

神谷義人, 喜屋武享, 高倉実, 金城昇, 仲宗根正, 琉球大学健康づくり支援プロジェクトLib

日本公衆衛生学会総会抄録集, Oct, 2020
Study of factors related to social and emotional skills in early childhood in Japan

Minoru Kobayashi, Minoru Takakura, Kengo Kakazu, Szymon Gredżuk, Takuya Masuzawa, Akira Kyan, Yurika Ganaha, Hiroshi Endoh

16th World Congress on Public Health 2020, Sep, 2020
How effective is the mixed method for the lesson analysis?

Minoru Kobayashi, Kengo Kakazu, Taichi Gushiken, Ryoma Sunagawa, Akira Kyan, Szymon Gredzuk

International Conference 2019 of World Association of Lesson Studies VU Amsterdam, Sep, 2019
沖縄県中学生における学校連結性と学力の関連性について

宮城政也, 高倉実, 喜屋武享

日本健康教育学会誌, Jun, 2019, 日本健康教育学会

Teaching Experience

Oct, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Advanced or master's course at university of Child and Healthy Life support (Kobe University)
Oct, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Childcare Content Study (Health II) (Kobe University)
Apr, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Diversity (Kobe University)
Apr, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Social empowerment (Kobe University)
Apr, 2021 - Apr, 2023

Social education (Kobe University)
Oct, 2019 - Mar, 2023

情報科学 (沖縄看護専門学校)
Oct, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Hygiene and Public Health (Okinawa University)
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

教育実習指導 (沖縄女子短期大学)
Mar, 2019 - Mar, 2021

ゼミナール (沖縄女子短期大学)
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021

保育内容健康 (沖縄女子短期大学)
Oct, 2016 - Mar, 2021

体育実技 (沖縄キリスト教学院大学)
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2021

健康・運動実技 (沖縄女子短期大学)
Mar, 2016 - Mar, 2021

健康と運動の科学 (沖縄女子短期大学)
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

教材研究「体育」 (沖縄女子短期大学)

Professional Memberships

Jun, 2020 - Present

日本公衆衛生学会
Jun, 2020 - Present

日本体育学会
May, 2020 - Present

The Japanese Society of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
Aug, 2019 - Present

日本疫学会
Mar, 2018 - Present

JAPAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Apr, 2016 - Present

THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL HEALTH
Aug, 2014 - Present

THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Jul, 2020 - Mar, 2021

日本栄養改善学会
Apr, 2016

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND PROMOTION
Mar, 2016

JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF EXERCISE EPIDEMIOLOGY
2014

THE ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CLINICAL DOHSALOGY

Major Research Projects

Restructuring of school health activities in Japan based on WHO health promoting schools theory

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027
Disparities and effects of acknowledgement of ecosystem services in daily life: developing a method for improving urban regional environment and health

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027
子どもの身体活動および体力における社会経済格差の推移

科学研究費助成事業学術変革領域研究(A), 学術変革領域研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2025

喜屋武享

Major Academic Activities

論文査読員（国内学術誌）

Peer review

日本運動疫学会1編; 日本健康教育学会誌 4編, - Present
Peer-reviewer

Peer review

- Present

Social Activities

Active Healthy Kids Japan “地方自治体別の児童・生徒の身体活動に関する報告”作成メンバー

Logistic support, Investigator

Active Healthy Kids Japan, 2017 - Present
「子ども・青少年を対象とした運動疫学研究への挑戦」

Guest

公益財団法人明治安田構成事業団, 第40回若手研究者のための健康科学研究助成贈呈式, Jan 23, 2025 - Jan 23, 2025
小学校体育保健領域授業づくりのサポート

Consultant

南城市立船越小学校, Oct 29, 2024 - Dec 20, 2024
ツキイチ勉強会

Lecturer

おとわの森子育てママフィールド petit prix ～プティプリ～, Mar 15, 2023
Kobe University Program for Inclusion (KUPI)

Lecturer

Kobe University, Dec 14, 2022
令和4年度進学カレッジ推進事業

Lecturer

沖縄県教育庁県立学校教育課高校教育改革班, Oct 14, 2022 - Nov 11, 2022
子どもの体力向上と学力向上

Lecturer

encounter Jr., Oct 14, 2022
高校出張講義（高大連携事業）

Lecturer

兵庫県立小野高等学校, Jun 16, 2022
ツキイチ勉強会

Lecturer

おとわの森子育てママフィールド petit prix ～プティプリ～, Mar 23, 2022
沖縄県SDGs教育連携ネットワークシンポジウム

Lecturer

国立大学法人琉球大学, Mar 19, 2022
総合的な探求の時間における指導助言

Consultant

沖縄県立那覇国際高等学校, Mar 7, 2022
Kobe University Program for Inclusion (KUPI)

Lecturer

Kobe University, Nov 24, 2021
教員採用試験対策（小学校マット運動）講師

Lecturer

沖縄大学, Aug 13, 2019
Doha-hou

Lecturer

Japan academy for health behavioral science, Jun 22, 2018 - Jun 24, 2018

Media Coverage

幼児の運動能力測定をより身近に、より簡単に２分で分かる！幼児の運動発達を可視化する新ツールを開発

名城大学・琉球大学, Dec 20, 2024 Promotional material
自然訪問の頻度格差と関わる日常生活環境や自然体験－年齢階層別の解析と都市環境整備への示唆－

神戸大学, Oct 8, 2024 Newspaper, magazine
青少年の24時間行動ガイドラインの達成と主観的健康の関係【琉球大学・高倉教授、京都大学・喜屋武助教】

メディアエンジン株式会社, Wellulu, Aug, 2023
Socioeconomic disparities in health behaviors among youth are changing with COVID-19

Kobe University & University of the Ryukyus, May, 2023 Internet
School children who meet movement guidelines report better health

Kobe University & University of the Ryukyus, Dec 6, 2022 Internet
Socioeconomic disparities in the physical activity level during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kobe University & University of the Ryukyus, Apr, 2022 Internet

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