ผลของโปรแกรมการเคลื่อนไหวทางกายที่มีต่อสมรรถภาพทางกายที่สัมพันธ์กับสุขภาพ ในเด็กนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาตอนปลาย โรงเรียนบ้านดอนยานาง จังหวัดนครพนม Effects of Physical Activity Program on Health-Related Physical Fitness among Grade 4-6 Students in Ban-Don-Yanang School, Nakhon Phanom Province
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of physical activity program on health-related physical fitness among grade 4-6 students in Ban-Don-Yanang School, Nakhon Phanom province. A sample used in the study as selected by purposive sampling was 37 grade 4-6 students who were enrolled in the first semester of academic year 2017 at Ban-Don-Yanang School under the Office of Primary Education Service Area 1. The study employed a quasi-experimental design. The instruments used in the study comprised a physical activity program for primary school students and a test of health-related physical fitness. Data was collected from the implementation of training for a period of 4 weeks, 4 days a week, 60 minutes a day. Statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean and standard deviation. The comparison of a difference between the mean scores of the tests of health-related physical fitness administered before and after the physical activity training by using a t-test for dependent samples. The statistical significance was predetermined at the .05 level.
Findings of the study revealed that the 4-week physical activity program had resulted in improved health-related physical fitness among grade 4-6 students in terms of muscle endurance, but agility decreased at the .05 level of statistical significance. Physical fitness in the aspects of muscle strength, flexibility, durability of the circulatory system and breathing were improved but not found significantly different.
Keywords : Health ; Physical Fitness ; Physical Activity