Commentary: The impact of COVID-19 Delta variant home confinement on student physical health literacy—a call for awareness in physical education

Abstract

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Delta variant wave of the pandemic, governments implemented health orders and policies that included citizens in lockdowns and confined to the home. These health orders and home confinement reduced children’s time for engagement in physical activity and access to supervised, structured physical education (PE) lessons. To understand the potential impact on the physiological aspects of children’s physical health literacy, one must understand the adverse consequences of detraining in relation to the reduction in physical activity and supervised structured PE lessons. The aim of this paper is to give a brief overview of how PE students were affected during the current COVID-19 pandemic. It will also discuss the impact of confinement on physiological adaptions. The article ends with a short discussion on the resumption of face-to-face PE lessons after enforced confinement and PE programming considerations. In such an uncertain environment, PE teachers need to show caution and consider the effects of detraining when programming PE lessons to ensure their safety and strategies for reconditioning.

Student’s Physical Health Prediction Model Based on the Deep Neural Network

“…To reduce the occurrence of this trend, he believes that this purpose can be achieved by storing and analyzing the data of students' health [9]. Sortwell and Ramirez-Campillo combined examples of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) delta variant to detect physical health indicators in children [10]. For students' physical health detection, there is a small amount of literature based on neural network research, but because the factors affecting students' physical fitness are diverse, to measure more accurately and effectively, it is obvious that DNN can meet this demand.…”

Increasing Physical Literacy in Pencak Silat Athletes: Two-Months Peer Teaching Model Program in COVID-19

“…Nowadays, most of the world are facing a high risk pandemic that has a huge negative impact on all areas including physical education in elementary schools to universities (López-Valenciano, Suárez-Iglesias, Sanchez-Lastra & Ayán, 2021;Roe, Blikstad-Balas & Dalland, 2021;Fang, Teng & Wang, 2021). Data reported that the COVID-19 pandemic caused athletes and teachers to carry out offline teaching while some people claimed that online teaching had various obstacles and did not provide optimal results (Jumareng et al, 2021;Sortwell & Ramirez-Campillo, 2022), which could led to a significant decrease in their talent related to physical literacy (Duclos-Bastías, Vallejo-Reyes, Giakoni-Ramírez & Parra-Camacho 2021; Young, O'Connor, Alfrey & Penney, 2021). According to Liu & Chen (2021) (2021), physical literacy in the context of physical education and sports has a concept as knowledge, motivation, self-efficacy and physical competence for active and sustainable involvement in lifelong physical activity (see Fig.…”

The curriculum took a back seat to huff and puff: Teaching high school health and physical education during Covid-19

“…While students’ engagement in physical activity should be encouraged, particularly in light of recent research ( Dunton et al, 2020 ) noting global physical activity decreases during Covid-19, such approaches are rarely accompanied by an educative purpose or themes ( Dyson, 2014 ), and do not foster sustainable learning or promote behaviour change. In the Covid-19 experience studies to date, some teachers show little evidence of thought to fundamental movement skills, movement competence and motivation, young people's personal and social skill development, and health literacy development for their wellbeing ( McCaffery et al, 2020 ; Sortwell and Ramirez-Campillo, 2022 ). These core elements and many others represent the content strands and descriptors that underpin the HPE curriculum ( ACARA, 2020 ), thus providing a framework for the education and development of all school students in the HPE learning area.…”