GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL
STUDENTS IN THE VISEGRAD COUNTRIES (V4)

Pongrác Ács; Józef Bergier; Ferdinand Salonna; Jan Junger; Csaba Melczer; Alexandra Makai

doi:10.5114/hpc.2016.61363

eISSN: 2354-0265
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Health Problems of Civilization Physical activity: diseases and issues recognized by the WHO

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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE VISEGRAD COUNTRIES (V4)

Pongrác Ács

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,

Józef Bergier

²

,

Ferdinand Salonna

³

,

Jan Junger

⁴

,

Csaba Melczer

¹

,

Alexandra Makai

¹

University of Pécs, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pécs, Hungary
Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education in Biała Podlaska, Poland
Palacký University of Olomouc, The Czech Republic
University of Presov in Presov, Slovakia

Health Problems of Civilization 2016; 10(3): 21-29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/hpc.2016.61363

Online publish date: 2016/09/22

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Background. Physical inactivity is also a significant problem in East-Central Europe and Hungary where 20% of the population does sports regularly while 53% of them never, in turn, 24% of the people does sports few times monthly. Insufficient physical activity is an increasing public health problem among young people and adolescents. Several types of research examined the quality and extent of physical activity related to different factors (social demographic, psychosocial, and lifestyle, etc.).

Material and methods. Interviewing was carried out from April to June 2015 at the same time in each Visegrad country. IPAQ extended physical activity questionnaire and a self-edited questionnaire were used to assess nutritional and activity habits (In order to evaluate data, INDARES software, and paper-based questionnaires were used for 2145 persons from different secondary schools).

Results. In low PA level category, male students were rather found while in high PA level category, male students showed higher ratios than females. From 56.7% to 77.8% of male students occurred in high PA level category opposite to female students where this rate was from 42.4% to 67.4%. We found significant gender differences in total MET/week values (p<0.001) in the V4 countries.

Conclusions. We found significant differences in the Visegrad countries and between sexes. These differences draw the attention to improving deficiencies in physical activity of secondary school students with well-defined risk group interventions.

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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE VISEGRAD COUNTRIES (V4)

Pongrác Ács 1 , Józef Bergier 2 , Ferdinand Salonna 3 , Jan Junger 4 , Csaba Melczer 1 , Alexandra Makai 1

physical activity, IPAQ, adolescents, Visegrad countries

Pongrác Ács

¹

,

Józef Bergier

²

,

Ferdinand Salonna

³

,

Jan Junger

⁴

,

Csaba Melczer

¹

,

Alexandra Makai

¹