ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL PREPAREDNESS OF STUDNTS OF THE FACULTY OF DOCTORS TRAINING FOR THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a steady trend of deteriorating health and fitness of student youth. The purpose of the article is to assess the level of health of students in the Faculty of Physician Training for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is one of the basic factors for improving training. The article uses such research methods as the analysis of medical records of 68 students of the Faculty of Physical Training for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and conducted a survey on the developed questionnaire, one of the items of which is the question of self-assessment of health. The results of the research determined anthropometric indicators and found that the state of health, physical activity, forms of rest of students can not be considered satisfactory. This is partly due to hypodynamics, which increases during training. It is shown that only one-fifth of students have the optimal level of physical activity for their age. It was found that 20% of students consider their health «excellent», 46% − «good», 29% − «satisfactory» and 5% − «unsatisfactory». Some students have chronic diseases, often turn to doctors for various diseases, not all students recover on weekends, and sports are the last among all forms of recreation. For 69% of students, physical education classes are the main activities, and perhaps the only, means of improving health and improving physical condition, and 70% of respondents seek to independently choose educational material at physical education classes. The prospects for the further esearch provides for the development and implementation of innovative programmes on physical education, which are the necessary preconditions fir the motivation of students to perform physical exercesises with the aim to improve the educating of priorities of a healthy lifestyle, improving health and fitness.