Mies van den Biggelaar - Are the first year students physically active enough?

Описание: Inactivity is classified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality, but this risk factor is not one that cannot be changed. Moderate physical activity (PA), for at least 150 minutes per week, can change the degree of potential risk and might even lead to health benefits. But physical activity levels decrease from childhood to adolescence and even more from adolescence to adulthood. In the phase from adolescence to adulthood most of us make the transition from secondary school to university (college), this transition can involve some unhealthy behaviour changes, such as increasing sedentary time/behaviour (SED) and decreasing physical activity. Furthermore, one is less likely to strive to change their PA and SED behaviour when they believe they meet the desirable behaviour and therefore overestimates their own PA. Identifying PA and SED patterns and discovering behaviours of PA and SED can help to come to further research and recommendations to prevent future health risks and problems. This study aimed to measure physical activity and sedentary time within first-year physiotherapy students, and to answer the following questions. To what extent do first-year physiotherapy students meet the standards on physical activity? And to what extend are the results found with an accelerometer similar to the students self-reported level of physical activity.

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Recorded at the Physiotherapy Symposium (Wednesday 3 Feb 2016 • Eindhoven • NL)