La natación como curso obligatorio y su impacto en la condición físico - emocional en estudiantes de deporte de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

The pandemic caused by COVID-19, has consequences on people's health, both in physical and emotional fitness, reducing people's quality of life, for this reason the objective of this research is to carry out a comparative analysis of the post-pandemic impact generated by the swimming chair on the physical-emotional condition of students enrolled in the period September 2021 - February 2022. This work is of a quasi-experimental type and is formed with the application of the Eurofit battery, which helps to measure the physical condition and the Dass scale questionnaire that helps to assess the emotional condition of each person. The population was 100 students who have studied swimming at the University of Cuenca, who sign the informed consent. In the results that were obtained, they were compared with two similar studies, in order to obtain the clearest and most precise analyses. There was an improvement in the two variables, first of all, in Eurofit, it is significantly evidenced 0.000 degree of significance that at P ≤ 0.05 which means an increase in the physical condition of the participants in each of the tests in this case the Flemish balance threw in the pretest 4.48 and in post. 1.20 in the general mean for this indicator, you can also compare the result of the tapping test that for the pre obtained 12.88 and in the post it has 9.17 in the general meanof the dimension it can be observed that the fiscal condition I improve significantly when I start swimming classes. On the other hand, regarding the DAAS scale, effective results are also shown, taking into account the general average presented 20.41% in the pre-test and forthe post-test 13.88%, managing to mitigate the emotional indices 6 .53%. In conclusion, thesetwo variables produced positive results for the physical and mental well-being of post- pandemic participants; assuming that compulsory swimming courses are favorable forstudents.