Postural education program for elementary school: a one-year follow-up study

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Abstract--The objective of this study was to verify the short-and long-term effectiveness of the Elementary School Postural Program in the performance, generalization, and perception of daily school activities. The final sample consisted of 61 subjects divided into experimental (14 years ±0.93; ♀=22; ♂=10) and control group (15.38 years ±0.97; ♀=16; ♂=13), all participants attended a Brazilian public school in Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul. The postural program included 20 sessions over a 10-week period. In each session, participants discussed and practiced routine actions that typically occurred at schools. Eight other meetings were required for the completion of the pre-and post-tests. The experimental group performed significantly better than the control group in the shortterm evaluations, although there were no significant statistical differences in the long-term follow-up evaluations. The children demonstrated a good behavioral response to the postural program; nevertheless, the knowledge had not been completely mastered after a year.Keywords: posture, postural balance, exercise movement techniques Resumo--"Programa de educação postural para o ensino fundamental: um estudo follow-up de um ano." O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a eficiência em curto e longo prazo da escola postural para o ensino fundamental na performance, generalização e percepção das atividades escolares diárias. A amostra final foi composta de 61 participantes divididos em grupos experimental (14 anos ±0,93; ♀=22; ♂=10) e controle (15,38 anos ±0.97; ♀=16; ♂=13), todos provenientes de uma escola pública de Porto Alegre, RS. O programa postural foi composto de 20 sessões, totalizando 10 semanas. Em cada sessão os participantes do grupo experimental discutiram e praticaram as atividades escolares diárias. Além desses encontros outros 8 foram necessários para a realização dos pré e pós testes. O grupo experimental foi significativamente melhor que o controle nas avaliações em curto prazo, contudo não foi observada diferença significativa na avaliação de longo prazo. As crianças parecem apresentar boa resposta comportamental ao programa, mas esse conhecimento não foi incorporado ao longo de um ano.Palavras-chave: postura, equilíbrio postural, técnicas de exercício e de movimento Resumen--"Programa de educación postural para la escuela primaria: un estudio follow-up de un año." El objetivo de este estudio fue verificar la eficiencia en corto y largo plazo del programa de educación postural para la escuela primaria en el rendimiento, generalización y percepción de las actividades escolares diarias. La muestra final consistió en 61 participantes divididos en grupo experimental (14 años±0,93; ♀ = 22; ♂=10) y control (15.38 años±0,97; ♀ = 16; ♂=13), todos de una escuela de Porto Alegre, RS. El programa postural consistió en 20 sesiones durante 10 semanas. En cada sesión, los participantes en el grupo experimental discutieron y practicaron las actividades escolares diarias. Además, otras 8 sesiones fueron requeridas para la realizaci...

Scoping Review on Interventions for Physical Activity and Physical Literacy Components in Brazilian School-Aged Children and Adolescents

“…Only adolescents had the opportunity to interact electronically with instructional SMS for PA practice with motivational messages about environmental changes and access to information on healthy eating habits and creation of an electronic diary of PA and food [20,[28][29][30][31][32][33][44][45][46][47][48][49]67]. Some studies have explored aspects of children's motor skills [66,76] and adolescents' postures [74,75]. Community health workers made home visits for children [18].…”

“…Table 3 summarizes the PL investigated in the studies according to age group. The components most frequently evaluated in interventions were PA attributes [18][19][20][21][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]37,41,42,44,45,48,50,[52][53][54][56][57][58][59][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]75,76] (30 studies; 71.4%). In general, children were evaluated in terms of fine and global motor skills, balance, body schema, and spatial and temporal organization [50,56,76,80].…”

“…Flexibility, physical and cardiorespiratory fitness, agility, BMI, weight, and height were variables assessed in both age groups [18][19][20][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]41,42,62,[64][65][66][67]69,72]. Most studies evaluated PL components and reported that the intervention had an effect on them [20,21,27,41,42,50,53,54,[56][57][58][59][61][62][63][64][65][66][69][70][71][72]75,76] (Table 3). Of the 42 studies, 19 evaluated PA behavior, with more studies involving adolescents [18,...…”

“…PA-related factors were evaluated with children in only two studies [60,77]; however, 12 studies with adolescents reported results on them [19,[22][23][24][25][26][28][29][30][31][32][33][37][38][39][40]51,75]. The psychological domain related to body perception, self-esteem, self-efficacy, perception of the environment, and satisfaction with PA was evaluated; however, several studies did not report any effect of these outcomes in adolescents [19,[22][23][24][25][26][28][29][30][31][32][33]40,51].…”

Educación e higiene postural en el ámbito de la Educación Física. Papel del maestro en la prevención de lesiones. Revisión sistemática (Education and postural hygiene in the field of physical education. Teacher's role in injury prevention. Systematic rev

“…Así pues, surge el interrogante acerca de si el contexto escolar puede colaborar en el desarrollo de dichos problemas posturales y provocar la aparición de dolores de espalda. En este sentido Ritter y Souza (2015), justifican la aplicación de su programa de educación postural en la escuela primaria, porque cada vez es más común la aparición de afecciones de la columna vertebral en edades tempranas.…”