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MHSalud
versión On-line ISSN 1659-097X
Resumen
VILLALOBOS VIQUEZ, Grettel; ALVAREZ BOGANTES, Carlos; ARAYA VARGAS, Gerardo A. y AMBULO AROSEMENA, Graciela. Effect of the ''Active Mobile Schools'' Intervention in Times of Pandemic on the Perception of Self-Efficacy, Enjoyment, and the Level of Physical Activity in Costa Rican and Panamanian Children. MHSalud [online]. 2022, vol.19, n.2, pp.158-176. ISSN 1659-097X. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/mhs.19-2.12.
Objective:
This research aimed to examine the effect of the Active Mobile Schools intervention on self-efficacy, enjoyment, and the perception of the level of physical activity in Costa Rican and Panamanian children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology:
The research sample comprised 55 girls and boys, aged between 7 and 9 years, from two public schools in Panama and Costa Rica.
Results:
The study mainly found that the intervention positively affected (pre-post improvements) the three dependent variables, but only in self-efficacy was the effect statistically significant (with moderate magnitude). In enjoyment and level of physical activity, the effect was small. There were no differences between countries, but a trend of deterioration was found in the participants of the control groups, in the three variables, especially in the Panamanian participants.
Conclusions:
The study leads to the conclusion that this intervention showed that using a multilevel model in times of pandemic, it was possible to improve the perception of self-efficacy and maintain levels of enjoyment and physical activity in the participating population, unlike the control group that showed a deterioration of the three variables in the infants.
Palabras clave : self-efficacy; physical activity; childhood; pandemic.