Perception of the Sports Social Environment After the Development and Implementation of an Identification Tool for Contagious Risk Situations in Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

José Ramón Lete-Lasa; Rafael Martin-Acero; Javier Rico-Diaz; Joaquín Gomez-Varela; Dan Rio-Rodriguez

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610421

Perception of the Sports Social Environment After the Development and Implementation of an Identification Tool for Contagious Risk Situations in Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 5:12:610421. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610421. eCollection 2021.

Authors

José Ramón Lete-Lasa¹, Rafael Martin-Acero², Javier Rico-Diaz^{1

3}, Joaquín Gomez-Varela², Dan Rio-Rodriguez^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Secretaría Xeral Para o Deporte, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
² Grupo de Aprendizaje y Control del Movimiento Humano, Facultade de Ciencias do Deporte e a Educación Física, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.
³ Facultade de Ciencias da Educación, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁴ ATP Entrenamiento Personal, A Coruña, Spain.

Abstract

This study details the methodological process for creating a tool for the identification of COVID-19 potential contagion situations in sports and physical education before, during, and after practice and competition. It is a tool that implies an educational and methodological process with all the agents of the sports system. This tool identifies the large number of interactions occurring through sports action and everything that surrounds it in training, competition, and organization. The aim is to prepare contingency protocols based on an exhaustive analysis, risk detection, and proposal of contingency measures trying to reduce the residual risk to a minimum. In the second part, the results of the implementation of this tool in the sports system of Galicia (Spain) are shown. The technicians have changed their perceptions about the coronavirus transmission in sports. They highlight the problem for returning to sports participation for athletes under 18 years in the pandemic context.

Keywords: COVID-19 virus disease; health risk assessments; infectious disease transmission; pandemics; risk perception; sport; teaching-learning process.