Effects of Health Promotion Strategy on Body Mass Index (BMI) and Physical Fitness–– A Case Study of the Students of a Junior High School in Kaohsiung City

• Main Authors: LIAO LIEN SHENG, 廖連昇
• Other Authors: CHEN YUEH HSIANG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m4mh7n

碩士 === 高苑科技大學 === 資訊科技應用研究所 === 102 === Abstract Nowadays high school students have to go to school and after-school tutoring class every day, but many of them take computer games as one of their main entertaining activities. In this way, their lifestyle of sitting on chair for long hours gives their bodies less chance of physical activities and worsens their health gradually. Therefore, the daily lifestyle of students has to be changed, and the amount of their physical activities has to be increased. Exercise not only has the advantage of prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease, but also can tremendously enhance intelligence, and improve mental and physical health. Thus, the teachers of Physical Education at schools are really bound to take the responsibility of urging students to exercise more. The study aimed to explore the effects of an health promotion strategy, which requested students to exercise regularly for 8 weeks, with 40 minutes’ exercise each time and 3 times each week, on the body mass index (BMI) and physical fitness of students, and also studied the difference in their performance and the reasons for the difference. In the implementation process, physical fitness training was offered to students so as to observe the pre-test and post-test data, which were then put in statistical analysis software to make analysis on whether the involvement of health promotion strategy could achieve the effects of enhancement of physical fitness and reduction of BMI. The research results showed that comparing to the control group, the experimental group had significant improvement in the various items of physical fitness and BMI data. The study suggested that apart from taking Physical Education class at school, students should cultivate a good habit of exercise themselves. If they could follow the exercise directions posted on the physical fitness website of the Ministry of Education, and practice step by step, or join the various sports training teams at school, the physical fitness of students could be strengthened. The study could be a reference for the related Physical Education teachers in teaching their students. Keywords: Health Promotion Strategy, Body Mass Index (BMI), Physical Fitness, Statistical Analysis