Level of physical activity in universties students: a cross-cultural studies

The aim of the present study was to assess the level of physical activity of university students from Serbia and Brazil. It is a cross-cultural study, with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional design. The non-probabilistic sample was composed of 60 students (95% female) in first years at Faculty of Education University of Jagodina, Serbia and 50 students (32% female) from the initial years of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Santos, Brazil. To assess the level of physical activity, all participants were submitted to the international Physical Activity questionnaire (IPAQ short version), using validated and translated versions for Serbian and Brazilian students. The data were tabulated to calculate the mean and standard deviation of the time spent in vigorous, moderate activities, walking and sitting time. After verifying the non-normality of the data using the Kolmogorov-smirnov test (p