Digital tools to help physical education teachers promoting health-related behaviors in teenagers students - FITeens project first results

Abstract

The aim of FITeens Project (Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Habits in Sedentary Teenagers) is to pilot an engaging educational intervention targeted at teenagers to promote physical activity and healthy habits based on the Big 6 (i.e., physical activity, sufficient sleep, low screen time, consumption of alcohol and tobacco, and intake of healthy food). The first result of the project (i.e., FITeens Toolkit - García-González, L. et al., 2023), is a digital tool for Physical Education teachers (i.e., eBook) with a set of ideas, resources, and good practices that can be incorporated into their teaching practice. This toolkit has 3 different modules: 1) High schools as effective settings to promote healthy lifestyles, that covers the importance of schools in the acquisition of healthy habits; 2. Motivation as a key to physical activity promotion, that focus on the importance of motivation to change behaviour; 3. Health-related behaviors in young people, that focus on the key health-related behaviors, describing each of them in depth. All modules of the eBook, in each area of the BIG 6, provide theoretical explanation, videos, infographics and learning situations that will support Physical Education teachers in acquiring a broad knowledge of how to get their students motivated to engage in physical activity and acquire healthy habits.