The Motor skills At Playtime intervention improves children's locomotor skills: A feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions are needed to teach fundamental motor skills (FMS) to preschoolers. There is a need to design more practical and effective interventions that can be successfully implemented by non-motor experts and fit within the existing gross motor opportunities such as outdoor free play at the preschool. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a non-motor expert FMS intervention that was implemented during outdoor free play, Motor skills At Playtime (MAP).

Methods

Participants were preschoolers from two Head Start centres (N = 46; M_age = 4.7 ± 0.46 years; 41% boys) and were divided into a MAP (n = 30) or control (outdoor free play; n = 16) group. Children completed either a 1,350-min MAP intervention or control conditi

SUBMITTER: Palmer KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8218890 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature