Motor competence of brazilian children and teenagers assessed by the ktk and mbct test: a systematic review

The study aimed to identify, in a Brazilian sample, the level of motor coordination in the literature with the KTK and MBCT tests and which variables were related more frequently related to this construct. The databases researched on the subject, in the period from 2017 to 2023, were PubMed, Scielo, and SportDiscus and the Google Scholar search platform. The PRISMA checklist tool and the PICOs eligibility criteria were used, and the keywords were: "motor coordination, KTK" and "motor coordination, MBCT" were used in Portuguese, English and Spanish. After screening with defined criteria, 26 articles were selected to compose the sample, with a total of 4.035 children involved in the studies. The descriptive analysis pointed out that the years 2018 (19%) and 2021 (30%) presented the highest number of publications with motor coordination assessment in the Brazilian sample. The results showed a classification of motor coordination as "Regular" among the studies that used the MBCT and a classification as "Normal Coordination" among most of the studies that assessed MC using the KTK. BMI and physical fitness were identified the most frequent found in the studies regarding the variables related to MC. It was concluded that the MBCT had greater applicability for the sample of sports practitioners, while the KTK showed a greater number of evaluations among schoolchildren.