Physical Activity and Nutritional habits for families

Aquatic Educational Programme

Development

-Physical activity programme (6-12 yrs) in the water (60 sessions)

-Place of practice: 2 public pools

-Disclosure of content, diet, nutrition and labelling (3 information forms)

-Proposal of exercising as a family (26 days)

-Monitoring (7 key indicators)

General Objectives

• 1-Promote the habit of practicing physical activity among children

• 2-Informing about the aspects of a healthy diet

• 3-Involve families in the physical practice of their children

TimingPhase 1: March-August 20081. Elaboration of activity programme to be developed and design

evaluation tests2. Editing of the information forms (diet and nutrition)3. Organisation plan to use the pools4. Training of the technical staffPhase 2: September 2008-June 20091. Promotion of the activity2. Registration of participants3. Development of the programme -3 trimesters-.Phase 3: July-October 20091. Evaluation: indicators (monitoring)2. Conclusions and valuations

Staff and technical staff involved

-1 Technical director

-1 Doctor specialised in sport medicine and nutrition

-2 Coordinators of the project (administration and technical area)

-8 Technical staff (leaders)

Leaders involved and training• Pool 1: 5 people• Pool 2: 3 people

• Vocational training course - 2 year course (2,000 h.) official certification.

“Animation of physical activity and sport” Individual aquatic physical sport (90h)– Water rescue and first aid (90h)– …

• Selection of candidates• Training of specific programme contents (6h)

Financing

• - CESS 10%

• - Ubae (sport organisation) 20%

• - IBE (municipality of Barcelona) 20%

• - Participants 50%

• - Budget: 89,760€

Groups offer of participantsage Level (seahorses) Pool 1 Pool 2

6 yrs. old White 3 (30) 2 (20)

7 yrs. old Yellow 3 (30) 2 (20)

8 yrs. old Orange 3 (30) 2 (20)

9 yrs. old Green 2 (24) 2 (24)

10 yrs. old Blue 2 (24) 1 (12)

11 yrs. old Black 2 (24) 1 (12)Total groups of practice (participants) 15 (162) 10 (104)

Distribution of groups and poolsPool 1

Mo Tu We Th Fr

17:30 1a 1b 1a 1b 1c

2a 2b 1c 2b 3a

3a 2c 2a 2c 3c

3b 3c 3b

18:30 6a 4a 4b 4a 4b

5a 5b 5a 5b

6b 6a 6b

Pool 2

Mo Tu We Th Fr

17:30 1a 1b 1a 1b

2a 2b 2a 2b

3a 3b 3a 3b

18:30 4a 4b 4a 4b

5a 6a 5a 6a

Indicator 1: Occupancy rate for groups

age Level (seahorses) Pool 1 Pool 2

6 yrs. old White 70’73% 100’00%

7 yrs. old Yellow 67’16% 100’00%

8 yrs. old Orange 77’27% 95’00%

9 yrs. old Green 91’67% 58’33%

10 yrs. old Blue 100’00% 50’00%

11 yrs. old Black 79’17% 33’33%

86’75% 80’03%

Indicator 2: Gender

Girls Boys

Pool 1 82 58 140

Pool 2 43 40 83

12556’05%

9843’95%

223

Indicator 3 : Assistance in sessions

age Level (seahorses) Pool 1 Pool 2

6 yrs. old White 69’23% 67’31%

7 yrs. old Yellow 73’08% 65’38%

8 yrs. old Orange 71’15% 76’92%

9 yrs. old Green 82’69% 78’85%

10 yrs. old Blue 86’54% 90’38%

11 yrs. old Black 88’46% 82’96%

86.42% 79.81%

Reasons “absence”

• 52’79% medical (illness, doctors appt, ...)

• 30’54% academic (exams, work, ...)

• 16’67% others (data not provided)

Content of physical activity programme

• Structure content by age group

• Objectives and development

• Organisation of the sessions• Assessment of achievement of the

objectives (test and report for parents)

Separated by age groups: Aquatic skills• Breathing• Propulsion• Dives• DivingCognitive / Affective:• Attitude and interest• Responsibility for the material• Hygiene habits• Relationship with companions and technical staff

Evaluation phases

Example of evaluationDives:

• Dive in the shallow end of the pool

• Start to dive in the deeper end of the pool

• Dive in the deep end of the pool

Jumps:• Jumps from different

positions• Jumps from different

positions with momentum• Jumps from different

positions with momentum, height and length

Test in the deep end of the pool:

• Jump into the pool with a float from a height of 50cm

• Once in the water dive to the bottom of the pool to pick up an object

Disclose content of diet and nutrition

• Informative forms:

– Type of food

– Mediterranean diet values

– Labelling interpretation

Proposal of activity with the family

• -proposal content: free use of the pool space

• -frequency (every Saturday)

• -attendance (trimester evaluation)

• Aquatic skills:

88’79% of the students improved (by age)

• Cognitive / Affective :

27’80% of the students improved (by age)

Indicator 4:Technical assessments

Indicator 5: questionnaires

Before and after tests were carried out with relation to the information forms.

-32% of the families said that they had improved their eating habits.

-27% of families said that they read the labelling when it came to choosing food products.

Indicator 6: Free activity(Saturdays)

• The free use of the pool for the participants and their parents.– 1st trimester: 15%– 2nd trimester: 21%– 3rd trimester: 37%

Indicator 7: Final evaluation of the activity

The families answered the satisfaction questionnaire:

- 96% of the families said that they were satisfied with the activity

- 86% said that they would repeat the activity

- The average valuation of the activity on behalf of the parents was 8’21/10

Conclusions and improvements to be made

- Good feedback from the partners, families, participants and entities

- Internationalism

- Improve the family activities

- Ways of promoting the activity:web site, social network

- Improve medical test (bmi, physical exam ...)- Improve nutritional knowledge- ... Your ideas are very welcome