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

ABSTRACT:

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 (

SUBMITTER: Lemes VB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8801194 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature