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Table 1 Eligibility criteria for the scoping review

From: Mapping recommended strategies to promote active and healthy lifestyles through physical education classes: a scoping review

Elements

Eligibility criteria

Type of publications

Guidelines, positions, plans, handbooks, or other documents; documents published by organized civil societies, professional organizations, governmental or non-governmental and non-profit organizations with national or international scope; documents published since 2000 until the date of research; and documents in Portuguese, English or Spanish were considered eligible. For documents that were updates of a previous document, only the last version was considered eligible

Population

Documents directed at school-age kids from elementary to high school were considered eligible. The Brazilian grades for kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school were based on the National Curriculum Guidelines [19]. Documents that addressed specific teaching modalities for target populations were not included (e.g., Indians, rural education, and special education for children with physical or intellectual disabilities)

Concept

Strategies were analyzed based on the four essential components of PE used by SHAPE [12], in addition to a fifth dimension elaborated by our group, as follows:

1) Policy and environment – related to changes in the number of weekly classes, class duration, size, time, spaces, equipment, and pedagogical structure as well as school rules regarding PE exemptions, substitutions, or punishments

2) Curriculum – focused on curricular plans and standards, such as the content, units, lessons, and activities to be taught during PE

3) Appropriate instruction – related to the use of instructional practices provided by the physical educator that encourage teacher and student involvement, participation and inclusion, and the use of materials, equipment, and technologies to promote maximum physical activity during classes

4) Student assessment – related to the measurement and monitoring of what students learn during PE;

5) Other practices related to PE – related to the actions that occur beyond the PE classes, but are intrinsically linked to the promotion and development of students’ physically active and healthy lifestyle

Context

This review included documents that presented any recommendation for the promotion of a physically active and healthy lifestyle though PE classes. Documents with recommendations that reported multi-component strategies related to PE, that is, in addition to PE classes, were also included. Documents that included high-performance sports were not considered