Physical Education, Sport and Corona virus pandemic: Understanding consequences of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on children’s and youth physical literacy

《体育教育、体育活动和体育运动国际宪章》确定，在整个生命过程中参加有意义的体育活动是所有人的优先事项和基本权利。身体素质是一个迅速发展的科学概念，也越来越多地用于政策。它意味着一个人在一生中有动力、自信、身体能力、知识和理解参与并承担有目的的体育活动的责任。对于儿童和青少年，先前的研究表明身体能力对整体学业成绩有积极影响。然而，在大流行期间，实施了各种干预措施，例如全面停课、部分停课（即同时取消体育教育）以及禁止娱乐和职业体育运动，这些措施可能威胁到儿童和青少年的积极身体和情感认知发展。该项目的目标是研究2020年春季至夏季和2020年秋季至2021年夏季由COVID-19引发的封锁对德国儿童和青少年身体和情感认知发展（身体素养；身体素养）的影响。特别关注的是社会因素的影响。封锁期间将作为自然实验来研究影响，特别关注社会因素。PESCov项目包括对儿童和青少年体育表现和教育组成部分的现有纵向数据进行两次二次分析。队列设计的数据集来自柏林，代表了一个大都市地区（约6600名三年级学生），纵向设计的数据集来自德国各地的代表性样本，包括汽车模块研究（1700名4-17岁的学生），作为数据基础。

The International Charter for Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport identifies participation in meaningful physical activity throughout the life course as a priority and fundamental right for all people. Physical Literacy is a rapidly evolving scientific concept that is also increasingly used in policy. It means that a person has the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding to engage in and take responsibility for purposeful physical activity across the life course. For childhood and adolescence, previous research has shown a positive impact of physical competence on overall school success. However, during the pandemic, a variety of interventions, such as full school attendance closure, partly attendance closure in schools (i.e., accompanying cancellation of physical education), and prohibition of recreational and professional sports, were implemented that potentially threaten the positive physical and affective-cognitive development of children and adolescents.The goal of this project is to examine the impact of COVID-19 induced lockdowns in spring to summer 2020 and fall 2020 to summer 2021 on the physical and affective-cognitive development (physical literacy; physical literacy) of children and adolescents in Germany. A particular focus lies on influences of social factors. The lockdown periods will be used as natural experiments to study the effects with a special focus on social factors.The PESCov project consists of two secondary analyses of existing longitudinal data on components of physical performance and education in childhood and adolescence. A cohort design with a dataset from Berlin representing a metropolitan region (> 6,600 third graders) and a longitudinal design with representative samples from all over Germany with the Motor Module Study (1,700 4-17-year-olds) serve as the data basis.