The education about spine health in secondary school and high school students

Evaluation of two educational models, one of them traditional and the other one based on projects (PBL) to promote spine health.

Acronym

SPINE-EDU

Reference code

PERCONFIRMAR

Description

The general goal of this proposal is to contrast a traditional learning method (TL) with a project based learning method (PBL) to promote spine health with the goal to determine the aspects in which they are more efficient related to the improvement of (dependent variables) the knowledge to care for your back in your daily life and physical activity practices, the habits of use of your body in your daily life and physical activity practices, the posture fitness, the perception of quality of life, the motivation of the participants and the cinematic parameters of walking with and without carrying weight, as well as the effect on these variables after 1, 2 and 6 months of the intervention.

All these aspects will be studied paying attention to the independent variables sex, age, and spine health level (these variables will act as dependent or independent depending on the study).

To reach this goal the study will be divided in the next specific objectives.

0.1. Design and validate an intervention based on BPL and TL in Physical Education for spine health for Secondary Education and High School.

0.2. Select the centres and teaching staff to implement and evaluate the training of the teachers in the use of the BPL and TL methods in the teaching practice to teach about posture health.

0.3. Select, train, and evaluate the observers that will study the loyalty of the applied methods.

0.4. Implement, evaluate, and contrast the applied models in the education for spine health having in mind the independent variables.

0.5. Keep track of the variables of the study before the intervention, once it is over, and after 1 month, 2 months and 6 months of it to analyse how they behave as time goes by in the analysed methods.