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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1521878
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative Teaching and Learning in Health Education and Promotion View all 18 articles
The LEG program promotes the development of physical activity and fundamental movement skills in preschool children aged 3-6 years: A Delphi study
Provisionally accepted- 1 Chongqing Preschool Education College, Chongqing, China
- 2 Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
- 3 Chongqing city fuling district kindergaiten, Chongqing, China
Background: To effectively address physical inactivity and delayed development of fundamental movement skills in preschool children aged 3-6 years. Methods:We assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts to systematically validate the LEG program indicators using the Delphi method.This Delphi study comprehensively and meticulously explored the insights of experts in the field to reveal the necessary indicators of the LEG program's role in promoting sustainable development of physical activity and fundamental movement skills in preschoolers ages 3-6.Using Likert 5-point scale and Wilcoxon statistical techniques, this study scrutinizes the dynamic consensus among experts and elucidates potential differences in their views. Results:After three rounds of Delphi surveys, O1, O2, and O3 reached consensus in all three rounds, T5, I5, I14, C11, and C12 disagreed due to disciplinary differences, and C18 and C22 disagreed due to cultural differences, and finally the LEG program indicators reached consensus on 3 Objectives, 7 tasks, 17 indicators, and 25 content.The results of this study strongly convey the experts' positive perceptions of the LEG program indicators in promoting sustainable development of physical activity and fundamental movement skills levels in preschoolers aged 3-6 years. Conclusions:This shows that the LEG structured curriculum indicators we constructed are scientific and reliable, which are in line with the physical and mental development of 3-6 year old preschoolers, and realize the in-depth integration of early childhood physical education and preschool education fields, which provides the basis for promoting the sustainable development of 3-6 year old preschoolers' physical activity and fundamental movement skills levels.
Keywords: LEG program, Fundamental movement skills, physical activity, preschoolers, Early Childhood Physical Education Programs
Received: 03 Nov 2024; Accepted: 20 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shi, Long, Yang, Fan and Tang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jingang Fan, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
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