SBAM Program in primary school in Italy for the development of motor activities and physical education. Monitoring of motor development, physical self-efficacy and enjoyment

Physical education in primary schools is an integral part of the educational process of the person. The unstructured physical activity levels decrease with age and the school is the privileged context to promote physically active lifestyles and healthy eating habits. SBAM is a three-year regional program (Italy, Apulia Region, 2013-2016) designed to promote the physically active lifestyles of the child. The program included three measures: physical education; active transport (pedibus); education to the right eating habits. Physical education classes were conducted by specialists together with the generalist teacher. The Programm, aimed at primary school children of 8, 9, 10 years (First, second and third year), was coordinated by the University of Foggia with the collaboration of the regional school office, the CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) and the administration of the Apulia Region. The lessons were conducted by specialists and generalists teachers (30 hours / year). Physical education in primary school urges integrated and coordinated inter-institutional interventions (school-extrascool) in order to propose a quality and systematically verifiable teaching process. In Europe, the percentage of overweight and obese children vary considerably between different countries and between different socio-economic groups; this highlights the importance of environmental and socio-cultural determinants related to eating habits and motor activities (Lavelle et al., 2012). The decline of the levels of childhood physical activity leads to an increase in BMI, a decline of motor performance with low levels of physical self-efficacy and enjoyment. The aim of the following study is to present the results of three-year motor monitoring and self-reports related to physical self-efficacy and enjoyment. Apart from the descriptive statistics (M±DS), Student's T Test was carried out, in order to highlight the significant differences within the groups (p <.05). The annual data were organized into deciles. The results showed significant differences in the three groups to 8,9,10 y. in all motor tests and self-report (p<.05). In each year, the nw group of children has motor performances and self-report scores higher than the ow and ob group. The motor abilities and the psychological constructs of all children have been evaluated. The SBAM monitoring program has confirmed previous studies showing that obese and overweight children have motor performance lower than their normal weight peers particularly in motor tasks that require horizontal and vertical displacement of the body (Lavelle et al., 2012). The results obtained confirm in the three years lower motor performance of overweight and obese children and lower scores in self reported of physical self-efficacy and enjoyment than normal-weight children (Kriemler et al., 2011)