Dear ladies and gentlemen, in this video I want to briefly summarize the most important

findings of our most recent study, the effectiveness of physical literacy interventions, which

has been published in Sports Medicine.

The study has been conducted between different researchers from Germany, for example, from

the universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Heidelberg-Indiena, in cooperation with the University of Queensland

in Australia.

We are all aware of the fact that modern societies lacking sufficient physical activity.

In this context, the concept of physical literacy comes into play.

Physical literacy is mentioned as a prominent concept in several important documents on

physical activity and health, such as, for example, the WHO Global Action Plan on Physical

Activity 2018-2030, or in the UNESCO Statement for Policymakers on the Quality Physical Education.

So physical literacy isn't indeed the key to solve problems of insufficient physical

activity.

But what is physical literacy?

According to the International Physical Literacy Association, physical literacy can be described

as the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take

responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life.

In looking at this definition in more detail, we can extract four main domains of physical

literacy, motivation and confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding, daily

behaviour.

In brief, we can also summarise it as the effective, the physical, the cognitive and

the behavioural domain.

But even though physical literacy has such an important position in these different documents

and in different concepts over the world, there is very few knowledge about interventions

to promote physical literacy.

In the first study that I've presented in the previous video, I have presented the review

on the design and content of these intervention studies.

But how effective are these interventions?

This was the main question of the present study.

The goals of this study were to provide an overview of evaluation studies on physical

literacy interventions, to analyse their study quality and to examine their effectiveness.

We've done this by drawing on a systematic review with meta-analysis while searching

at 18 databases.

Inclusion criteria of our study were that these interventions had to be based on or

at least inspired by physical literacy or they should have physical literacy as an evaluation

outcome.

Studies had to be published in academic journals or book sections.

We only considered articles in English language.

Before entering the final meta-analysis, studies additionally had to provide quantitative data

and at least one control group.

We searched the different articles in the different databases through a systematic process

in a successive manner.

From the initial identification of articles in databases, removal of duplicates, we went

through title screening, abstract screening, full text screening and assessed all the articles

in accordance with the criteria in terms of legibility.

And finally, of these 51 articles, which reported 48 separate interventions, 23 entered finally

the meta-analysis.

Our last update has been undertaken in November 2021.

And looking now at the evaluation approaches of the intervention studies that we can find

a very mixed, broad and diverse landscape.