Physical activity and body posture of younger school children in the opinion of parents

Makarczuk Anna, Kowalewski Michał. Physical activity and body posture of younger school children in the opinion of parents. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(12):138-150. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.12.013 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2020.10.12.013 https://zenodo.org/record/4372571 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2020; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 10.12.2020. Revised: 20.12.2020. Accepted: 20.12.2020. Physical activity and body posture of younger school children in the opinion of parents Anna Makarczuk Michał Kowalewski Summary The research was conducted in 2017 - 2018 in Łódź among parents of children attending the classes I - III of primary school. The method of diagnostic survey was used and a total of 521 questionnaires were collected. The general level of parents' knowledge of the causes of posture defects and their prevention is low. Only twenty percent of parents can identify the most common causes of defects and factors that negatively affect a body posture. Among the studied population of children, body posture disorders occur in 83% of cases. Children most often do not perform corrective and compensatory exercises at home (73%) and do not attend corrective gymnastics (56%). A significant percentage of people (58%) spend five or more hours a day sitting and playing the computer. The percentage of children not participating in any additional physical activities is also relatively high (43%). These facts arise the request of the need to take action to increase awareness among parents for the prevention and treatment of static disorders of the body. Key words: early school education, posture defects, parents' awarenes