COVID-19 pandemic and phyfical of activity practice by students of the 9th year of middle school

Abstract

The article analyzes the practice of physical activity by middle school students, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Teresina. We collected the data with a questionnaire applica-tion for four students of ninth-year of middle school (n = 4) from a population of forty-one (N = 41) students. We produced the text based on the statistical method and tables of the frequency distribution of the variables studied, and it organized in the JASP 0.13 program. The study included 3(75%) girls and 1(25%) boy, aged between 14(25%) and 15(75%) years. All of them claimed to participate actively in Physical Education classes, of which 4(100%) of them did other activities outside of school, with a weekly frequency of 1(25%) time and 2-3(75%) times. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 3(75%) re-mained active, while 1(25%) did not perform any physical activity and the weekly frequency was 1(25%) not once a week, 2(50%) 1 time a week, and 1(25%) 2-3 times a week, configuring a reduction in physical activity during quarantine. Physical practice decreased during quarantine in adolescents. Ho-wever, it was not possible to make inferences that could characterize a positive relationship between quarantine and reduction in physical activity.