Effect of the Mobile Active Schools intervention on the self-efficacy variables, enjoyment and perception of the level of physical activity, in a pandemic (Covid-19) in Panamanian schoolchildren

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to measure the enjoyment and efficiency of the physical activity in the Panamanian youth. It is a longitudinal, prospective, and comparative study of pretest-post design with a control group. A public high school in a community in Panama City was chosen with 30 children both boys and girls, with an average age of 7 to 8 years old. The intervention has been based in the auto efficiency and enjoyment of the level of physical activity showing significative results according to the statistics between an experimental and control group, as well as the pretest, and posttest groups. In the measurements of physical activity, the results confirm that there is no difference between genders in the pretest and posttest. Regarding the control group there is no evidence of a positive change. We can conclude saying that this intervention during COVID pandemic has been positive because it generates more auto efficiency at the enjoyment, also the perception of the physical activity in regard of the control group that show a decrease in his efficiency.