Physical Activity Levels Medical Sience University Staff in Isfahan



Shakib RA¹ ; Pour AS² ; Moradi S³ ; Niroukar J⁴ Show Affiliations
Source: Advances in Environmental Biology Published:2014

Abstract

Background: Physical activity is any movement in daily life such as work, leisure, sports and action. Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the levels of Physical activity levels Medical Sience University staff of Isfahan. This study is descriptive and applied. The population of both staff and Medical Sience University staff (Deputy therapy, Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs - Cultural Affairs support, Ghzav Department of Medicine, Department of Health, and Research) in 2012, respectively. Population size based on their employment have been 1647 which the sample size was 332 using Cochran formula and were selected by proportional stratified random sampling. Beck Baecke physical activity questionnaire instrument consisted of a questionnaire with 16 questions on the questionnaire based on the opinions of experts and university professors and reliability through Cronbach's Alpha 0.76 was calculated. For data analysis, statistical methods, univariate t-test, test Kalmagrvf - Smirnov test and ANOVA and MANOVA were used to Levin. Results: Physical activity levels are lower than average level of the University staff and the staff of levels of physical activity in terms of demographic characteristics, level of physical activity and exercise alone, there was no significant difference between male and female employees. Conclusions Given the importance of physical activity and increasing the productivity of employees of an organization with regard to the findings, the following is necessary: increasing physical activity in the workplace than do normal activities, promote physical activity, sport and Conditions of leisure and sports facilities for the staff and fill out the sports staff. © 2013 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.