Publication detail

Physical activity of students at Brno University of Technology

KORVAS, P.

Original Title

Physical activity of students at Brno University of Technology

Type

conference proceedings

Language

English

Original Abstract

Nowadays, the population lifestyle is affected by a number of factors. In the specific social group of university students the key factors are the character of their study, opportunities to join a physical activity and the students´ attitude to regular physical exercise. The aim of our research was to find out the volume of physical exercise and sedentary activity in the course of seven subsequent days throughout a semester encompassing the students´ study time and leisure time. Group: Bachelor students of Brno University of Technology (n=558), 276 women and 252 men. Design: The long IPAQ form was chosen for the research. We used results based on questions from Part 1: questions 2-7, and Part 4, questions 20-25. Results: It has been found out that 49.8 % of the students declared high-intensity and 44.8% medium-intensity loading at the time of study, 62.2% of the students indicated 10 minutes of walking daily. At the study time the load was 3594 MET/week. For leisure time, 76.0% of the students indicated 3.7 days of walking over ten minutes, on average 77.1 minute per day, 69.9% of the students indicated an intensive physical activity, the average time is 84.9 minutes per day and 43.7% of the students indicated medium-intensity physical activity, on average 67.3 minutes per day. One week leisure time activity was assessed at 1596 MET. The time of sedentary occupation is rather long at a technical university, 6.8 hours/day at study time and 4.97 hours/day over the weekends. Conclusions: The desired walking time is indicated by a relatively high number of students for study as well as leisure days. The students indicated lower physical activities for leisure time than for study time, which is somewhat surprising as the system of study in most programmes encompasses lectures and seminars where the students are sitting, and laboratory practise with both physical and sedentary activities.

Keywords

questionnaire, leisure time, study time, physical activity, university students

Authors

KORVAS, P.

Released

14. 11. 2017

ISBN

978-953-317-054-1

Book

Modern approaches to physical activity promotion and measurement

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages from

92

Pages to

92

Pages count

1

BibTex

@proceedings{BUT141843,
  editor="Pavel {Korvas}",
  title="Physical activity of students at Brno University of Technology",
  year="2017",
  series="1",
  number="1",
  pages="92--92",
  isbn="978-953-317-054-1"
}