Measuring the level of physical activity among students of Technical Institute of Mosul 2018

Abstract

Background: Because of the importance of physical activity, countries , organizations and even researchers try to construct standards to compare results with and study physical activity continuously.
Aim: To establish whether or not Iraqi students participate in enough physical activity to gain health benefit.
Materials and methods: The study was conducted on a sample of 2000 subjects from the second-year students at the Technical Institute/Mosul for the study of physical activity. The information gathered using a predesigned questionnaire.
Results: The age group (21-23) year was the most frequent in the study cohort forming 58.8% of the total sample size. Male and female percent was close, giving 50.3% and 49.7% respectively. Of the total, 77.3% were from urban area, while 22.7% were from rural areas and majority (86.5%) of the sample were single. Non-smokers form 78.3% of the studied sample, which gives the good indicator. It was found that approximately 26% of the effort is high for 1 and 2 days and the time of the high activity / minute concentrated at 30 and 60 minutes and 22.5%. In the same context, the frequency of a moderate effort (1 and 2 days) was the highest and form approximately 31% as well as for the time of moderate activity/min. More than 75% were walking during (5 and 7 days) per week. Walking time/min was about 60, 30, 20, 120 and 36.1, 19.1, 9.5 and 7.2%, respectively.
Conclusion: The prevalence of physical activity among students was high and more among female students