Abstract:

Introduction:
Health promotion is the best investment that can be made to enjoy a full and active life, and good habits will be strengthened if they are worked on at an early age. Traditionally, efforts to promote exercise in childhood have been aimed directly at the student body. However, participation in family environments is key, since it is at home where good health habits are established and reinforced, and it is the parents who are the role models for their children.

Objective:
To identify the strategies carried out in the academic setting on the promotion of physical exercise aimed at families of children aged 6-12 years.

Methodology:
A systematic review was carried out in the Pubmed, Scielo, Cuiden and BVS databases. All those studies that dealt with the subject of study and that were published between 2019 and 2024 in English or Spanish were included. The recommendations of the Preferred Reporting for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement were followed and the methodological quality of the studies was assessed using CASPe and STROBE.

Results:
A total of 11 articles were selected after deleting duplicates and applying the selection criteria. Two of the studies had been conducted in China and two in the United Kingdom, and a single study in each of Canada, Sweden, South Korea, Finland, Greece and New Zealand. Two teaching methodologies have been identified for instilling good habits in the school population: strategies specifically oriented towards families and strategies involving families and schoolchildren. The strategies identified were: interactive educational workshops on false myths, limiting downtime, interactive online workshops, physical activity literacy, co-participation among families, behavior change workshops, sport-related play activities. Parental enjoyment has been linked to more physical activity and less sedentary children. Personalization of strategies, professional support and involvement of sports entities has obtained significantly effective results.

Conclusions:
The strategies identified as most effective have been: interactive educational workshops, limitation of screen time, physical activity literacy and family co-participation in physical activity programs. The effectiveness of health education interventions requires customizing them to adapt to the diverse social and cultural customs of the family, frequent follow-up and reminders to ensure that participants receive all relevant information, trying to ensure a high level of commitment and effort on the part of those implementing the intervention, diversifying communication methods to ensure that the information is assimilated and remembered periodically, and finally being able to work not only with parents, but also involving key figures in the child's environment.

Keywords:

eHealth Strategies, Physical Exercise, Health Promotion, Schoolchildren, Families.