PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS OF THE TEACHERS AND RELATION BETWEEN AGE, GENDER AND BODY MASS INDEX
Abstract
This study aims to determine physical activity levels of the teachers from different branches, to evaluate the relation between age, gender, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity level and to encourage individuals to do physical activities for healthier people and a healthier community by giving importance to the benefits of the physical activities. The populations of this research are the teachers who work in Beypazarı town of Ankara 286 teachers from all branches are taken to the research. After the ages, heights, weights, and BMI's of the subjects are taken their physical activity levels are determined by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and classified as active level, low active level and sufficient active level. At the end of the research the energy consuming of the subjects is seen as 2142,76±161,43 MET-min/week in average. It is also seen that 17,1% of the teachers are not physically active, 63,9% of them are low activity level and 19% of them are in sufficient activity level to protect their health. Among the subjects whose body mass indexes are below 25kg/rrf the 20,4% of them are not physically active but this proportion decreases to 15,2% among the subjects whose body mass indexes are above 25 kg/m2. Also, women's physical activity level is lower than men. According to these results it was the seen that teachers working in Beypazarı weren't enough physically active.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
July 1, 2017
Submission Date
April 8, 2017
Acceptance Date
June 17, 2009
Published in Issue
Year 2009 Volume: 14 Number: 3