Introduction:
The World Health Organization identifies falls as a major global public health issue. Falls are the second-leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 684,000 deaths each year (WHO, 2021). It also requires finding strategies that emphasise education, training, the creation of safer environments, the prioritisation of falls-related research and the establishment of effective policies to reduce risks.

Objectives:
The aim of this study is to determine whether school children show a change in their protective motor responses to an unintentional backward fall after the implementation of the judo-based programme, Safe Fall–Safe School©.

Methods:
65 students (33 female students and 32 male students) from physical education classes of secondary schools in Andalusia, Spain, participated in the study during the course of six weeks of the 2020/21 academic year. The average age is between 12 and 17 years (M = 13.88 ± 1.44). The IMC obtained is 22.57± 4.87 and in terms of academic grades the students have an average of 7.00± 1.75. The Andalusia Biomedical Research Ethics Committee has approved the study. The research process used was as follows (DelCastillo et al., 2018): Safe Fall–Safe School© programme pretest and posttest on 4 experimental groups. Using the INFOSECA ad-hoc observation scale, data was gathered. Three fundamental aspects of protection were taken into consideration while observing backwards falls in a lab setting: neck flexion, using the hands to break the fall, and rolling on the back. Statistics were used in descriptive, correlational, and contrast analyses. McNemar test used the value of p

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