Physical activity

FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO

DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS

Dear students,

We hereby present you fictitious research with some missing/incorrect elements, which you need to use to write your seminar paper, by analyzing specific elements of given research.

Your task is to critically review and analyze the research article and write comments and deep revisions on the following elements, including typos and language/styling errors:

1. Introduction (Does the research article present a well-written introduction? If not – write an introduction section appropriate to the given research title. If yes – analyze and explain why you consider it well-written, and/or add anything you would consider appropriate.

2. Aims of research (Are the research aims presented? If yes – are the research aims appropriate for the research title? Why? If not, specify and describe aims with detailed explanation.

3. Sampling methods (if the article does not specify the sampling method, write out a section by describing the appropriate method with explanation. If sampling method is provided, review and provide commentary. If chosen sampling method is not appropriate, explain your reasoning.

4. Means of data collection (if the article does not provide detail on means of data collection (survey, interview…) – explain how would the participants be found and investigated? If there’s an explanation, what would you alter, if anything?)

5. Questionnaire (Is the introductory letter written correctly? Do the questions in the questionnaire relate well to the research title and aims? Is the formatting correct? Is the questionnaire legible and easy to understand? What would you alter? If there are a lot of errors, consider redesigning the questionnaire completely.) Note that numbers in parentheses are made to simulate the data/frequencies of answers.

6. Descriptive statistical analysis of the collected data (Means and middle numbers, measures of variability, tabular and graphical data presentation. If no statistical analysis was performed, do it as if you were doing analysis from a revised questionnaire you’ve correct in the previous task – simulate answers for dozens of participants and analyze the data, or use and review the numbers given in the flawed questionnaire). Bonus points for any kind of hypothesis testing (inferential statistics) will be added, but if not comfortable with it – descriptive analysis can be enough for solid grade.

7. Literature (Is it written? Is the literature list formatted according to citation standards? If listed literature is poor, consider adding literature you used for rewriting the introduction section.)

RESEARCH TOPIC: " PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SARAJEVO "

1. INTRODUCTION:

Adopting healthy habits and forming a healty lifestyle are very important during the period of childhood and adolescence and with them it is necessary to start as soon as possible. Regular physical activity has multiple positive effects in youth people: it contributes to the proper growth and development of childrens, helps wight control, fat reduction, effective heart, and lung function, and therefore reduces the risk of developing chronic diseases in later periods of live.

Play, sports and other physical activities give young people the opportunity to increase their level of self-esteem and self-esteem as well as self-esteem, encourage their social integrations and development of social skills.

Misconceptions about physical activity:

• Physical activity is expensive, requires equipment, a special wardrobe and payment of membership fees

• Physical activity takes up a lot of time

• There is no need to spend time and money teaching children about physical activity, children are also active enough by nature

• Physical activity is for younger people, at my age I shouldn't be burdened with it

• Engaging in physical activity is essential alone in industrially underdeveloped countries

Acquired habits regarding physical activity in childhood and adolescence are likely to take place during further life providing the basis for active and healthy life. Bad lifestyle habits, such as a sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, accepted at a young age are most likely to linger.

2. RESEARCH AIMS:

1. check how many students in schools in grades 5-9 engage in physical activities

1. through issues to increase adequate levels of health by focusing on performing physical activities

2. contribute to the control and prevention of mass non-communicable diseases

1. increase awareness of the health benefits of physical activity 3. increase physical activity by 15%-20%

1. point out to the community that politics and initiatives should be such to create an environment that will help people to be physically active, which implies an

increase in the number of parks, the arrangement of pedestrian zones and bike

paths.

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5. QUESTIONNAIRE

Respected

We are second-year students of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sarajevo, doing a survey on the topic, "Presence of physical activity in young population". We hope you won't find it hard to single

out only 10. minutes of your precious time to fulfill our survey. We guarantee you anonymity, the results will be made public but personal and answers will not be presented. Please provide your best and honest answers, and for any ambiguities contact the coordinator at xxxxxx.

We are pre-gratefull.

Round one of the replies offered or supplement your responses!

1. Spol: M (60) Ž (40)

2. Year of birth: _______.

3. Height (in cm): _______.

4. Weight (in kg): ________.

1. 5. Your professional preparation:

a) primary school(25) b) secondary qualifications (30)

c) higher professional qualification (26) d) high professional qualification (15)

e) none of the above (4)

2. 6. What do you mean by physical activity?

a) sleeping (13) b) crocheting (5) c) computer work (15)

d) running (55) e) none of the above (12)

3. 7. Do you believe that physical activity affects your health?

a) no, no (25) b) no (15) c) no yes, no, no (10)

d) yes, affects (30) e) yes, it has a very strong effect (20)

4. 8. In accordance with the previous answer, do you consider yourself to be a physically active person:

(a) (45) (b) ne (55)

5. 9. Do you have any chronic illnesses:

a) yes (25) b) no (skip the next one and go straight to question 11) (75)

1. 10. How does this disease affect your physical activity?

___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

11. How do you spend your free time?

a) running (20) b) walking (30) c) I go to the gym (28)

d) I play sports (15) e) other ________________ (7)

2. 12. How much time a day do you spend playing sports?

a) less than half an hour (40) b) from half an hour to an hour (10)

c) more than an hour (43) d) I do not know (7)

3. 13. How do you get to school/college/work every day:

a) public transport (55) b) on foot (10) c) by car (25)

d) by bike (5) e) other ___________ (5)

4. 14. With society you prefer to go:

a) to nature (27) b) in a discotheque (35) c) to a café (28)

d) I have no company (5) e) other (5)

5. 15. Do you consume cigarettes?

a) yes (45) b) no (skip the next question and go straight over question 15) (55)

6. 16. How many cigarettes do you smoke?

a) 10 cigarettes per day (38) b) one to two packs per day (27)

c) one box a week (25) d) I don't know (10)

7. 17. How often do you consume alcohol:

a) I do not consume alcohol by any means (25) b) 2-3 times a year (30)

c) once a month (28)

d) once a week (7) e) none of the above __________ (10)

8. 18. Are you sexually active?

a) yes (80) b) no (skip the next question and go straight to 18th) (20)

9. 19. How often do you have sexual relations with your partner:

a) once a day (12) b) several times a week (35)

c) once a month (40) d) other _____________ (13)

10. 20. Your opinion on this survey:

a) I don't like it at all (10) b) I don't like (5) c) I don't have opinions (30)

d) I like it (30) e) I like it very much (25)

Thank you for your patience and honest answers

6. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLECTED DATA

This survey included 100 respondents. The collected data from the conducted research are given in the questionnaire next to each answer. Following this data, analyze the data using the descriptive statistics method, and interpret the obtained results with tabular and graphical representation. Include demographic data in this analysis (general data about the respondent) and the five most important questions in your opinion that correspond to the goals of aging.

Note: If you change the questions in a given questionnaire or offer missing questions, as well as when the data for the appropriate question is missing, please do the above statistical processing on your presumed data.

7. LITERATURE

1. Internet,etc.