No Play, no Gain: o uso da tecnologia para o monitoramento da prática de atividade física entre estudantes do Ensino Médio Integrado do IFMS

Abstract

Children and adolescents should accumulate 60 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day; however, more than 80% of this population presents itself as insufficiently active (WHO, 2018). In this sense, the creation of new strategies to encourage physical activity performed by this population is necessary. Therefore, this research developed an application for smartphones called “No Play, No Gain”, which seeks to control and maximize the practice of physical activity performed by students from Integrated High School at IFMS. The educational product development followed an adaptation of the methodology proposed by Richardson et al. (2012) for creating educational products, which comprises five steps: defining the goal of the educational product, reviewing previous research on the subject, elaborating, testing, and reviewing the proposed educational product. The educational product No Play, No Gain was tested by students in their third year of Integrated High School at IFMS – Campo Grande campus and evaluated through a structured questionnaire with a five - point Likert scale, considering five items: capacity, confidence, use, visual appearance, and involvement. The application validated by the users is a tool that may be used by physical education teachers to control and maximize the practice of physical activity by high school students in order to achieve the recommended levels of health promotion and maintenance.