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

Lete-Lasa, José RamónMartín Acero, RafaelRico Díaz, JavierGómez Varela, Joaquín FernandoRío-Rodríguez, Dan2024-02-052024-02-052021-08-05Lete-Lasa JR, Martin-Acero R, Rico-Diaz J, Gomez-Varela J and Rio-Rodriguez D (2021) 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. 12:610421. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.6104211664-1078http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32294This 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.eng© 2021 Lete-Lasa, Martin-Acero, Rico-Diaz, Gomez-Varela and Rio-Rodriguez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these termshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/COVID-19 virus diseaseSportPandemicsInfectious disease transmissionHealth risk assessmentsTeaching-learning processRisk perceptionPerception of the Sports Social Environment After the Development and Implementation of an Identification Tool for Contagious Risk Situations in Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemicjournal article10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610421open access