Correlation between physical activityand anthropometric data of ninth grade studets of Kaunas city and district.

Patricija Žižniauskienė Supervisor Aušra Petrauskienė, Dr. Sc. Assoc. Professor Faculty of Public Health, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Kaunas; 2017. 67 p. Aim of the study. To Determine the correlations between physical activity and anthropometric data of 9 graders. Objectives. 1. To analyze and evaluate physical activity of 9 graders. 2. To analyze anthropometric data of students. 3. To evaluate the correlation between student’s physical activity and normal or excessive body mass. Methods. The survey was performed in 2016 in seven Kaunas city and two district schools. Object of the study – 9th grade students (n=159). The survey was performed participating in the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative. The methods used in this survey: a questionnaire survey of 9 graders and anthropometric measurements. Descriptive data are expressed as percentages, means, and standard deviations. Stjudent‘s - t test, Mann –Whitney U test, chi-squared test and the z – test with Bonferroni correction were used in this work. Results. 52.5 % boys and 44.3 % girls were sufficiently physically active. Most of the students (63.5%) arrive to school in passive ways but go from school in active ways (52.8 %). More than a half of boys (78.8 %) and 65,8% of girls had normal body weight, more girls were underweight than boys and every seventh girl and boy were overweght. 80.5 % of sufficiently physically active students had normal body weight. Conclusions. Almost a half of the students were sufficiently physically active. Most of the students had normal BMI, more girls than a boys were underweight, every seventh girl and boy were overweght. 2,5 times more students with overweight were insufficiently physically active, comparing to sufficiently physically active