Saúde mental nas aulas de educação física durante o Programa de Residência Pedagógica: um estudo piloto

Abstract

The objective of this article was to identify the changes in knowledge about mental health in students of the 6th year of elementary school II of the public school system in the city of Maceió/Alagoas after theoretical/practical interventions in the Pedagogical Residence, Physical Education subproject (2020-2022). The study is of the quantitative type, with an experimental model and with characteristics of pre and after intervention in a pilot model. The variable of this study is mental health. The interventions were elaborated from the guiding document of the National Common Curricular Base, respecting the dimensions of knowledge of Physical Education. To analyze the results, the Paired T Test was used, with a significance level of p<0.05. The results indicated that there was a significant change in students' knowledge about the relationship between physical activity and mental health (p=0.014), and there were no changes in knowledge about the concept of mental health (p=0.113) and anxiety symptoms (p= 0.54). The conclusion of this study points to the importance of the program in the theoretical and practical training of students in undergraduate courses, in addition to the debate on issues related to health at school, specifically on mental health.