Factors associated with the amount of physical activity elementary students engage in physical education class: a scope review

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Introduction: Physical activity provides benefits in children, however, despite this, it has been shown that there is a high prevalence of physical inactivity in children worldwide. However, the physical education class has been used as a strategy to promote physical activity in schools. Therefore, some physical activity recommendations have been set aside for the education class that primary school students are not complying with. Therefore, it is important to inquire about the factors that are associated with the amount of physical activity that primary school children do in physical education class. Method: follows the methodology for scoping reviews, searching the following databases: Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science. Addressing physical activity in the physical education class and extracting the information according to the methodological aspects, interventions and factors reported by each article. Results: A total of 14 articles were included, which were classified into methodological outcomes, factors associated with physical activity in the physical education class and their respective categories, and emerging variables. Discussion: We propose a series of recommendations for physical education teachers according to the factors reported in the literature after an analysis of their scope and nature. Its weakness was the distribution of the articles among the authors, and the strength of the thoroughness of the methodology process. Conclusion: There are factors associated with the amount of physical activity that primary school children perform in physical education class, which are classified as: factors related to students, the teacher, the environment, and other factors.