Level of and Factors Determining Physical Activity in Students in Ukraine and the Visegrad Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://10.3390/ijerph15081738" target="_blank" >http://10.3390/ijerph15081738</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081738" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph15081738</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Level of and Factors Determining Physical Activity in Students in Ukraine and the Visegrad Countries

Original language description

Background: Examining the level of physical activity in students is a vital issue as these young people are the future social elite. Methods: The research was conducted in the years 2013-2016 and comprised 5008 males and females, mean age of 20.5 +/- 2.1 years, including 2237 (55.3%) students from students from Eastern European National University, Lutsk, and Ternopil State Medical University, Ukraine, as well as 2237 (44.7%) from the Visegrad countries, i.e., University of Pecs in Hungary, University in Kosice, Slovakia, University of Olomunec in the Czech Republic and the State School of Higher Education in Biaa Podlaska, Poland. It applied a diagnostic surveythe extended version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), supplemented with original questions regarding body weight, height, self-assessment of physical fitness and amount of leisure time. Results: The comparison of students&apos; PA from selected European countries, members of the Visegrad group and Ukraine, is particularly vital to the latter country as it demonstrates a different level of socio-economic development. There was noted a significantly higher level of physical activity in students from the Visegrad countries than in Ukraine. Further, there was an overall lower level of physical activity in females compared to males. What was positive about the studied samples was a healthy BMI index in the majority of the male and female respondents, with a significantly higher indicator in Ukraine. Conclusions: Among the factors significantly affecting higher physical activity in both researched samples were the BMI and high self-assessment of physical fitness. There was no significant variation in the level of physical activity and the amount of leisure time, both in those studying in the Visegrad states and Ukraine.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1660-4601

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000443168200178

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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