Prevalence of physical activeness and its determinants among first-grade school children

Aim of the study. is to analyze the prevalence of physical activeness and its determinant factors among the first-grade school children of Lithuania. Objectives. To evaluate the physical activeness of the first-grade school children. To analyze the possibilities of practicing physical activities at schools. To evaluate the socioeconomic indicators of the families. To determine the relation between the physical activeness of school children and its determining factors which come from the family environment. Methods. The research was conducted under the coordination of the Word Health Organization, which prepared the research methodology and the questionnaires. The research period: from April till May 2008. A single-time questionnaire based survey was conducted with parents and teachers. In total, 5341 parents of first-grade students from 10 different districts and 155 primary school teachers from the same schools participated in the survey. The collected data were processed using the statistical analysis software SPSS (Version 12.0) and MS Excel. The statistical analysis was based on the Chi-square (²) criterion. The statistical conclusion was deemed reliable at the significance level of p