Aplicabilidade de um escore de aptidão física autorrelatada e sua relação com testes objetivos de aptidão física de crianças de Maceió-AL

Abstract

In March 2020, the WHO declared the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, therefore, the WHO recommended the use of masks and social distancing as short-to-medium-term solutions to try to stop the spread of the disease. During the current pandemic, an increase in health risk factors was observed in the Brazilian population and difficulty in evaluating children in social distance. The objective of this study was to identify and describe the Physical Fitness of schoolchildren, aged 6 to 14 years, in a pandemic period and to compare the level of association of the score on the Self-Reported Physical Fitness Questionnaire (QAPA) with the results of the PROESP-Br test battery. , validated to estimate the physical fitness of school-age children. The PROESP-BR tests were used, in addition to the QAPA questionnaires and the Movement Behavior Questionnaire (MBQ) to make the correlations. The sample size was 20 male children, aged between 6 and 14 years, participating in a soccer school that has already returned to activities independently of this research. In the present study, descriptive statistics of Mean and Standard Deviation were used for all PROESP-BR variables and Pearson's Correlation to verify if there is a significant relationship between the results of the battery of physical fitness tests for health and the QAPA. The results showed that the group as a whole presented a good result in the battery of health tests, with 06 individuals in Risk Zone in the Body Mass Index (BMI), with 05 of them also in Risk Zone in Cardiorespiratory Fitness, in agreement with studies that verify this relationship. However, the entire group performed poorly in tests for sports performance. In this context, it is plausible to conclude that the fact that they have only 2 days of weekly training and 01 hour/class of practice per day interferes negatively with these results, in addition to the fact that this practice had a character of participation in sport instead of performance sport. Regarding the QAPA, it presented a good response, r = -77, when correlated with the Health Test Battery, even when it comes to applicability in a cultural/regional context different from the validation article, concluding that the QAPA was applicable within the presented context.