The physical fitness quality is the basis of the students' comprehensive quality, and it is the essential condition of the development of individual growth. But today's school is more emphasis on the students' learning culture results instead of physical education. With the growth of the level of life, physical quality has declined. This paper expatiates the reason of contemporary students' phy...

Email: [email protected] Abstract: The main objectives are to develop an anthropometric database for Saudi Students and to compare it relative to two other Middle Eastern people. A national anthropometric standard for Saudis does not exist and few studies have focused on the development of Saudis anthropometric data and the comparison of them with other races. The availability of these data i...

To investigate the association between height in young, socially homogeneous males and cause-specific mortality, the authors conducted a prospective study of 8,361 male former students who underwent medical examinations while attending Glasgow University, Scotland, from 1948 to 1968. The mean age at examination was 20.5 (range, 16.1-30.0) years. The median follow-up time was 41.3 years. There w...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to address the current scenario of LBW and infant nutritional and to analyze the effect of maternal status and pattern of their breast feeding practices on perinatal and postnatal infant development. METHODS Cross-sectional study design with structured questionnaires was used among 510 mother-infant pair to collect data. Maternal anthropometric, socio-ec...

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare physical fitness values of students engaged in different team sport branches Totally 60 female, and 60 male athletes, that 20 athletes in each branch which are volleyball, basketball and football participated the study as a volunteer. The mean ages of female and male athletes were 21.20 ±1.87 and 21.61 ± 1.61 respectively. Age, height, body w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of and factors associated with body image dissatisfaction among physical education students enrolled in a public university. METHODS This study evaluated 236 students and assessed body image perception (silhouette scale), sociodemographic variables (sex, age, parental education, marital status, university course, work, living arrangement, study shift, and...

QUESTION UNDER STUDY We determine the causes of secular changes in the average height of the male Swiss population for the first time by analysing an unbiased, individually measured, highly representative height-data sample of 18- and 19-year-old Swiss conscripts (N = 458,322) at the national level spanning the years 1992 to 2009. Furthermore, we add historical context based on earlier data fro...

the aim of this research was to investigate the role of formal education and extra curricular programs of physical education and sport sciences (msc courses) in providing entrepreneurial skills for postgraduates from senior students' viewpoint. statistical population of this research consisted of all senior students of general physical education (msc level) of all state universities of ira...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of starup circuit exercise program on derivatives reactive oxygen metabolite (d-ROM) and biological antioxidant potential (BAP) levels and physical fitness of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, and to sugesst exercise programs to promote the health and physical development of such adolescents. Twelve students with intellectual disabil...

[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to understand the coping strategies used during physical therapy clinical practice. [Subjects and Methods] Sixty-eight of 77 physical therapy students (88.3%) responded to questionnaires, including a tri-axial coping scale and a scale of stress reactions after clinical practice (median age=22 years; 45 were male, 23 were female; 37 third-year students,...