Changes in children's self-perceived physical fitness: results from a Physical Education internet-based intervention in COVID-19 school lockdown.

Autor: Lemes VB; Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Felizardo, 750, Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90690-200 Brazil.; Escola de Educação Básica Prof. Gracinda Augusta Machado (EEBGAM), Secretaria de Estado da Educação de Santa Catarina, Imbituba, Santa Catarina Brazil., Fochesatto CF; Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Felizardo, 750, Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90690-200 Brazil., Brand C; Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Felizardo, 750, Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90690-200 Brazil.; Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Promoção da Saúde, Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil., Gaya ACA; Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Felizardo, 750, Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90690-200 Brazil., Cristi-Montero C; IRyS Group, Physical Education School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile., Gaya AR; Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Felizardo, 750, Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90690-200 Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sport sciences for health [Sport Sci Health] 2022; Vol. 18 (4), pp. 1273-1281. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 30.
DOI: 10.1007/s11332-022-00897-1
Abstrakt: Background: Children have a higher chance of decreasing health-related physical fitness during periods of school lockdown due to pandemic situations such as with COVID-19 disease.
Aims: To establish the changes in children's self-perceived physical fitness (SPPF) during pandemic COVID-19 social distancing in a school lockdown and to describe the individual prevalence of changes in SPPF according to sex.
Methods: It is an intervention study with a convenient sample, 67 children (6-13 years old; 50.7% girls). An intervention occurred according to the Brazilian Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) and the State Education Secretary orientations for remote Physical Education classes. SPPF was evaluated through a questionnaire (QAPA). Generalized estimative equations (GEE) and the prevalence of changes in individual score delta (Δ) from baseline to follow-up determined the effects.
Results: Positive individual changes in SPPF were observed for 21.2% of girls and 26.4% of boys. Older children presented fewer SPPF total points. There was no interaction between the evaluation period, sex, and age. However, higher baseline SPPF values presented a negative association with the individual SPPF variation ( β  = - 2.52%; CI 95% - 3.97 to - 1.07; p  = 0.001).
Conclusion: A remote Physical Education intervention effectively maintained or even increased individual results of children's SPPF. Thereby, this study suggests that this kind of initiative should be retained for the duration of social distancing and pandemic conditions to help children maintain an active lifestyle and, consequently, achieve health benefits. Improving intervention effectiveness by focusing on girls seems to be a challenge in this matter.
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11332-022-00897-1.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interestThere is no conflict of interest to disclose.
(© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature 2022.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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