scholarly journals Health promotion for young patients with haemophilia

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank-Detlef Stanek ◽  
Holger Gabriel ◽  
Karim Kentouche ◽  
Judith Sondermann ◽  
Marco Herbsleb
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Treatment Centre ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Term Evaluation ◽  
Health Counselling

SummaryThe haemophilia treatment centre of the Clinic for Children and Youth Medicine in Jena extends medical care by health-promotion measures, namely: health counselling, adjuvant exercise therapy and school sports. In addition to the regular medical checks at the treatment centre patients are examined regarding physical fitness, joint situation, quality of life in general and disease-specific manner, as well as psycho-social and nutritional behaviour. Findings and medical results of the examinations are integrated into an individual advice on therapy, school sports, and health recommendations. This aimed at strengthening health-related resources and minimizing potential injuries. First long-term evaluation shows an increase of activity behaviour and physical fitness without increasing bleeding rate and maintained joint function. Conclusion: Combining functional prevention diagnostics and individual health counselling shows signs of improved patient’s health knowledge, self-competence and physical fitness.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Health Knowledge And Measures Of Health-related Physical Fitness

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Marc D. Faktor ◽  
Darren E.R. Warburton ◽  
Ryan E. Rhodes ◽  
Shannon S.D. Bredin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mission-X Child Health Promotion Program in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1333-1339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungwon Min ◽  
Zhengqi Tan ◽  
Laurie Abadie ◽  
Scott Townsend ◽  
Hong Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Child Health Promotion ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Behaviors

Purpose: To examine the effects of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mission-X: Train Like an Astronaut program (MX) on children’s health-related knowledge and behaviors of a sample of US participants. Design: A nonexperimental pilot intervention study in 5 cities with a pre–post comparison of children’s health-related knowledge and behaviors in the United States in 2014 and 2015. Sample: Children (n = 409) with a mean age (standard deviation) of 10.1 (1.7) years. Measures: Children answered pre- and postintervention questionnaires. We measured the differences in children’s health knowledge on nutrition and physical fitness and behaviors on diet and physical activity as scores. Intervention: A 6-week web- and school-based intervention for a healthier lifestyle by introducing physical fitness and science activities based on actual astronaut training under a teacher’s supervision. Analysis: Nonparametric analysis and logistic regression models. Results: Participants significantly improved both of their health behaviors on physical activity ( P < .001) and diet ( P = .06) and their health knowledge regarding nutrition ( P < .001) and physical fitness ( P < .001) after the intervention. The improvement in children’s behaviors ( P < .001), knowledge ( P < .001), and the total score ( P < .001) after intervention did not significantly vary by sex or age, after adjusting for year of participation and state of residency. Discussion: The MX seems effective in improving health behaviors and health knowledge of participating children, which may serve as a model for sustainable global child health promotion program. Further research is needed to test its long-term effects on child health.

scholarly journals Impaired Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Muscle Strength in Children with Normal-Weight Obesity

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9198
Author(s):  
Martin Musálek ◽  
Cain C. T. Clark ◽  
Jakub Kokštejn ◽  
Šarka Vokounova ◽  
Jan Hnízdil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Body Fatness ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Fitness Tests ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Normal Weight Obesity ◽  
Post Hoc

Despite the health-related implications of normal-weight obesity in children, very little research has explored the fundamental associations between this status and important long-term health parameters. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate the physical fitness of children with normal-weight obesity, in comparison to normal-weight non obese and overweight and obese counterparts. A total of 328 middle-school-aged children (9.8 ± 0.5 y) took part in this study (n = 44 normal-weight obese; n = 237; normal-weight non obese; n = 47 overweight and obese). Height, weight, and body-fatness were measured. Four physical fitness tests were conducted: (1) Multistage fitness test; (2) shuttle run 4 × 10 m; (3) sit-ups for 60 s; (4) the broad jump. Welch’s analysis of variance (ANOVA), stratified by sex, with post-hoc testing where necessary, was performed. Children with normal-weight obesity had significantly (p < 0.01) lower cardio-respiratory and muscular fitness than normal-weight non obese peers. In addition, normal-weight obese and overweight and obese boys had comparable deficits in strength and explosiveness of lower limbs, speed coordination, and endurance, compared to normal-weight non obese counterparts. Normal-weight obese children appear to have similar deficits in PF as their overweight and obese peers, compared to normal-weight non obese counterparts, whilst boys had larger deficits than girls.

scholarly journals Disaster Prevention Education along with Weekly Exercise Improves Self-Efficacy in Community-Dwelling Japanese People—A Randomized Control Trial

Medicina ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Akihiko Katayama ◽  
Ayako Hase ◽  
Nobuyuki Miyatake
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
Education Group ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Group D

Background and Objectives: Both disaster prevention and health promotion have become public health challenges in Japan. Maintaining physical fitness from the perspective of disaster prevention and maintaining physical fitness from the perspective of health are basically covering similar issues, they are seen as different from one another because of differences in administrative jurisdiction in Japan. In the case of disaster prevention education, physical fitness is not mentioned. In and outside Japan, partial integration of disaster prevention education and health education is required. This study compares and examines the effects of disaster prevention education and traditional exercise education, as well as exercise practice. A randomized controlled trial alongside an evacuation behavior model during the event of a disaster were used in this research. Materials and Methods: A total of 97 community-dwelling participants were randomly allocated to two groups, a disaster prevention education group (Group D) and a traditional exercise education group (Group E). Group D received disaster prevention education with weekly exercise. Group E received traditional exercise education with weekly exercise. After ten weeks of intervention, the total evacuation time of the disaster evacuation model course, physical fitness, self-efficacy (General Self-Efficacy Scale: GSES), and health-related quality of life (QOL) were compared between the two groups. Results: No differences were observed between the two groups regarding the changes in the parameters of total evacuation time, physical fitness, and health-related QOL. However, the changes in GSES scores were significantly higher in Group D (1.4 ± 3.9) than in Group E (−1.1 ± 7.5). Conclusions: Disaster prevention education with weekly exercise significantly increased participants’ self-efficacy compared to traditional exercise education. The combination of disaster prevention education and exercise practice may have a positive effect not only on disaster prevention behavior but also on self-efficacy in health promotion. Disaster prevention education does not directly influence health promotion, but it may be a very effective method for indirectly promoting health.

Relationship between Physical Activity and Health-Related Physical Fitness in 16-Year-Old Boys

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (80) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Rutkauskaitė ◽  
Arūnas Emeljanovas ◽  
Vida Volbekienė ◽  
Rita Sadzevičienė ◽  
Edita Maciulevičienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Vertical Jump ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Jump Test ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Short And Long Term

Research background and hypothesis. It is well established that regular physical activity (PA) has many short- and long-term benefi ts for children’s health. Physically active children are more physically fi t than their physically inactive counterparts. Insuffi cient physical fi tness of adolescents is one of the risk factors for chronic diseases and has a tendency to be carried over into adulthood. Research aim was to examine health-related physical fi tness in low, moderate and vigorous physical activity categories among 16-year-old schoolboys.Research methods. The participants were 155 healthy schoolboys of the 10 th  grade from secondary schools of Kaunas (Lithuania). Their physical activity was measured by a modifi ed short form of the International PA Questionnaire (IPAQ) (Craig et al., 2003). The respondents were divided in three PA categories: high (vigorous) (VPA) (n = 43), moderate (MPA) (n = 63), and low (LPA) (n = 49). Physical fi tness tests were performed to measure participants’ fl exibility (by sit-and-reach test) (Eurofi t, 1993), power (by vertical jump test), and muscular strength and endurance (by modifi ed push-up test) (Suni et al., 1994). Research results. There were no signifi cant differences between the boys in different PA groups in respect of anthropometrical and body composition parameters (p > 0.05). The results of health-related physical fi tness tests were signifi cantly better of the VPA group boys (p < 0.05). The total volume of PA correlated with all health-related physical fi tness components that were measured (r = 0.23–0.38, p < 0.01). Discusion and conclussions. We may conclude that health-related physical fi tness is positively related to the total amount of physical activity in 16-year-old schoolboys.Keywords: frequency, duration, intensity, volume, physical activity, physical fitness.

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