Open AccessUse of Pedometry to Assess the Physical Activity of Hong Kong Secondary School Students during School Lunch Period
Author(s) -
Lobo Louie,
Ping Shing Chan
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
asian journal of physical education and recreation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2075-4604
DOI - 10.24112/ajper.81256
Subject(s) - physical activity , meal , promotion (chess) , psychology , period (music) , demography , medicine , physical therapy , sociology , physics , pathology , politics , political science , acoustics , law
LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.The intent of the researchers was to determine the physical activity level of the secondary school students during their lunch period in regular school days in Hong Kong. The physical activity for the following two distinct groups were studied: Mandatory Group - students who are not permitted to have lunch meal outside the school, and Free Group - students who are free to go away the school for a meal. Subjects' age ranged from 13 to 18 with a mean of 14.6. Pedometers were utilized to assess the physical activity in terms of the step counts recorded. The step counts for the free group were significantly (p < .05) larger than that of the mandatory group, indicating that more physical activity was achieved when the students were free to move outside the school during lunch time. In addition, boys were more active than girls in both groups. Recommendations for the promotion of students' habitual physical activity during lunch period were made.本文作者旨在探討本港中學生於午膳間的身體活動量利用輕便的步數記錄儀來比較兩組群之身體活動量分別留在校內組及離開校園組。學童年齡由13至18歲不等平均為14.6歲。結果顯示留在校內組的身體活動量較離開校園組顯著少P < .05)引證出學童留在校內午膳時缺乏足夠的身體活動。而且女生的活動量也較男生顯著減少校內學生活動量下降的問題值得體育工作者的關注。