Author: Douglas John House
Publisher:
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Differences Among Attitudes Toward Physical Activity and Levels of Body Fat in Fifth Grade Boys and Girls
Author: Douglas John House
Publisher:
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Masters Abstracts
Author:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The Attitudes Toward Physical Activity of Fifth Grade Girls who Compete in Age Group Athletics
Author: Patricia E. Higginbotham
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Study of the Relationships Among Self-concept, Attitudes Toward Physical Activity, and Physical Fitness Levels of Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
Author: Debbie A. Nelsen
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Category : Health attitudes
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health attitudes
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Comparison of Attitudes Toward Physical Activity and Physical Activity Levels of Sixth Grade Boys and Girls of Various Ethnic Origins
Author: Diana L. Parkhurst
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Nutrition in Public Health
Author: Sari Edelstein
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284143627
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Nutrition in Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted array of programs and services that exist in the United States today that are dedicated to bettering population health through improved nutrition. The Fourth Edition explores the subject by first considering how nutrition fits into public health and then by examining policymaking, assessment and intervention methods, special populations, food security, and program management.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284143627
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Nutrition in Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted array of programs and services that exist in the United States today that are dedicated to bettering population health through improved nutrition. The Fourth Edition explores the subject by first considering how nutrition fits into public health and then by examining policymaking, assessment and intervention methods, special populations, food security, and program management.
Master's Theses in Education
Author: T. A. Lamke
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Educating the Student Body
Author: Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309283140
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309283140
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Physical Performance, Attitudes and Fatness in Young Females [microform]
Author: Jane Louise Cameron
Publisher: National Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780315124240
Category : Exercise
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through this study, the relationships among selected physical performance parameters and attitude toward physical activity of elementary school girls were investigated. A physical fitness performance test, a motor performance test, and a questionnaire assessing attitude toward physical activity were administered to seven, nine, and eleven year old girls of varying levels of fatness. The parents of these children responded to a questionnaire designed to determine parental attitude toward their own and toward their daughter's physical activity participation. These variables were selected for consideration on the basis of their proposed relationship to childhood obesity as implied through a review of related literature. Relationships between fatness and the variables were determined through analysis of variance and the chi-square statistic with phi and Cramer's V as measures of association. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were applied to indicate the strength of the relationships among the interval variables. Specific physical fitness performance items were found to be inversely related to fatness level and directly related to age level. The children exhibiting a greater proportion of body fat elicited performances significantly lower than those of the girls with average fatness while executing the flexed arm hang, sit ups, and fifty meter run. The older children performed a greater number of sit ups than the younger children. Motor performance, as indicated in an item by item analysis, was directly related with the girls' ages. Only the jump and balance (left foot) was found to be inversely related to fatness level. The results also indicated significant associations between level of fatness and selected attitudinal variables with reference to nine and eleven year old girls. For children seven years of age, however, no significant relationships were found between degree of fatness and the variables under consideration. When examining the results for girls nine years of age and the three fatness classifications, mother's attitude toward physical activity as long and hard training and father's attitude toward physical activity as a social experience were found to be significantly associated with daughter's fatness. The results accruing when undesirable fat and overfat were amalgamated into above average fat for nine year old girls indicated the following significant associations with daughter's fatness: mother's attitude toward physical activity involving thrill and risk; father's attitude toward physical activity as a social experience; and father's attitude toward daughter's physical activity as a social experience and as long and hard training. Child's attitude toward two subdimensions of physical activity were found to be significantly associated with the fatness level of eleven year old girls. These two included the attitudes toward physical activity as both an aesthetic and as a cathartic experience. Eleven year old girls' level of fatness also was found to be significantly associated with three subdimensions of physical activity reflecting father's attitude toward daughter's participation. These subdomains included physical activity as a social experience, as long and hard training, and for competition. The present study did not find significant re 1 ationships between level of fatness and most of children's attitudes toward physical activity, or the correlates of these attitudes. Due to the limitations of the study, it cannot be stated with assurance that these variables are not associated with fatness. The results of the study did indicate, however, that specific aspects of physical fitness and motor performance were related to the fatness and age classification of the subject. The aforementioned associations between parental attitudes and daughter's fatness also were found to be significant. The conclusions drawn from these results suggested that childhood obesity may be partially addressed through a physical activity program aimed toward improving the physical fitness profile of the overfat child. It was also indicated that parental involvement should be emphasized when designing programs concentrating on physical activity for the prevention and/or treatment of childhood obesity.
Publisher: National Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780315124240
Category : Exercise
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through this study, the relationships among selected physical performance parameters and attitude toward physical activity of elementary school girls were investigated. A physical fitness performance test, a motor performance test, and a questionnaire assessing attitude toward physical activity were administered to seven, nine, and eleven year old girls of varying levels of fatness. The parents of these children responded to a questionnaire designed to determine parental attitude toward their own and toward their daughter's physical activity participation. These variables were selected for consideration on the basis of their proposed relationship to childhood obesity as implied through a review of related literature. Relationships between fatness and the variables were determined through analysis of variance and the chi-square statistic with phi and Cramer's V as measures of association. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were applied to indicate the strength of the relationships among the interval variables. Specific physical fitness performance items were found to be inversely related to fatness level and directly related to age level. The children exhibiting a greater proportion of body fat elicited performances significantly lower than those of the girls with average fatness while executing the flexed arm hang, sit ups, and fifty meter run. The older children performed a greater number of sit ups than the younger children. Motor performance, as indicated in an item by item analysis, was directly related with the girls' ages. Only the jump and balance (left foot) was found to be inversely related to fatness level. The results also indicated significant associations between level of fatness and selected attitudinal variables with reference to nine and eleven year old girls. For children seven years of age, however, no significant relationships were found between degree of fatness and the variables under consideration. When examining the results for girls nine years of age and the three fatness classifications, mother's attitude toward physical activity as long and hard training and father's attitude toward physical activity as a social experience were found to be significantly associated with daughter's fatness. The results accruing when undesirable fat and overfat were amalgamated into above average fat for nine year old girls indicated the following significant associations with daughter's fatness: mother's attitude toward physical activity involving thrill and risk; father's attitude toward physical activity as a social experience; and father's attitude toward daughter's physical activity as a social experience and as long and hard training. Child's attitude toward two subdimensions of physical activity were found to be significantly associated with the fatness level of eleven year old girls. These two included the attitudes toward physical activity as both an aesthetic and as a cathartic experience. Eleven year old girls' level of fatness also was found to be significantly associated with three subdimensions of physical activity reflecting father's attitude toward daughter's participation. These subdomains included physical activity as a social experience, as long and hard training, and for competition. The present study did not find significant re 1 ationships between level of fatness and most of children's attitudes toward physical activity, or the correlates of these attitudes. Due to the limitations of the study, it cannot be stated with assurance that these variables are not associated with fatness. The results of the study did indicate, however, that specific aspects of physical fitness and motor performance were related to the fatness and age classification of the subject. The aforementioned associations between parental attitudes and daughter's fatness also were found to be significant. The conclusions drawn from these results suggested that childhood obesity may be partially addressed through a physical activity program aimed toward improving the physical fitness profile of the overfat child. It was also indicated that parental involvement should be emphasized when designing programs concentrating on physical activity for the prevention and/or treatment of childhood obesity.
Nutrition in Public Health
Author: Edelstein
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284104699
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Nutrition in Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted array of programs and services that exist in the United States today that are dedicated to bettering population health through improved nutrition. The Fourth Edition explores the subject by first considering how nutrition fits into public health and then by examining policymaking, assessment and intervention methods, special populations, food security, and program management.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284104699
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Nutrition in Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted array of programs and services that exist in the United States today that are dedicated to bettering population health through improved nutrition. The Fourth Edition explores the subject by first considering how nutrition fits into public health and then by examining policymaking, assessment and intervention methods, special populations, food security, and program management.