Desarrollo de una herramienta para caracterizar políticas educativas y factores relacionados con la escuela que influyen en la actividad física en niños de 5 a 12 años

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize educational policies and schoolrelated factors that influence physical activity in children from 5 to 12 years of age at the Eugenio Espejo School. Methodology: The study design includes two approaches a literature review and validation study. For this purpose three parts were followed: 1) a literature review of studies at the different digital bases, 2) after a critical reading of the selected articles, the educational policies and school-related factors that positively influence physical activity levels were identified, 3) finally, the validation of the tool was performed out through expert opinion and reliability was obtained with the application of the tool in the Eugenio Espejo school, the alpha de Cronbach and Kappa coefficient were calculated. Results: in total 10 articles related to educational policies and school-related factors that influence physical activity levels were selected. In addition, 17 educational policies and school-related factors were identified as positively influencing physical activity levels such as infrastructure, facilities, sports materials, condition of pavement, etc. A questionnaire was built based on the 17 identified items, and the validation of content by means experts indicated that some changes should be made to the tool, after which a final version was obtained. In the results of the reliability of the tool, the internal consistency by means of Cronbach's alpha in educational policies was 0.9 and in factors related to the school it was 0.8, resulting in statistically significant values. Likewise, to verify the reproducibility of the tool through the Kappa statistic, it resulted in a value of 1 in both policy and school-related factors, meaning that there is excellent agreement between the tool's responses.