Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Motor Development of Schoolchildren in Rural and Urban Environments.

ABSTRACT: Social and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to significant stagnation in children's motor development, but precise data on this are lacking. We aimed to examine the impact of the pandemic and society closure on motor development of school children and to find differences between rural and urban environments. From the SLOfit database, we obtained anonymous results from 756 6^th grade children before the pandemic (11.3 ± 0.5 years, 52.5% boys) who performed physical fitness measurements in 2017 and 2019 in 8th grade and from 853 6^th grade children (11.4 ± 0.5 years, 51% boys) who performed measurements in 2019 and 2021, after 3 pandemic waves. The results of eight physical activity tests and the overall physical fitness index were compared betwee

SUBMITTER: Pajek SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123420 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature