Actividad física y hábitos sedentarios en niños de la escuela de Educación Básica Particular Unitec Discovery. Subnivel medio

Abstract

The present work focuses on Physical Activity and Sedentary Habits in children of the middle level of the Private Elementary Educational Institution Unitec Discovery and is developed in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador. This study aims to analyze the physical activities that allow the substitution of sedentary habits in children of the middle sub-level of the same Eductional Institution. The present reseach has a non-experimental cross-sectional design, with a descriptive scope, in addition, among the main methods, literature reviews, historical logical method, synthetic analytical and deductive method were used, as well as a questionnaire type instrument validated by different professional pedagogues, to privade greater reliability to the collected data. this questionnaire was applied to 25 students of the Private Elementary Educational Institution Unitec Dsicovery of the city of Cuenca, through the Google Forms system. As main results, it was obtained that in the 50% of the sample during the week predominates sedentary activities and the other 50% predominates physical activity, these sedentary activities increased to 59.1% on weekends. In conclusion, there is an awareness of the importance of health at an early age in this population segment.