Abstract
Physical activity is one form of healthy behavior, an individual’s efforts to maintain or improve health conditions. There are broad spectrum of benefit such as physical, mental and social if we do regular physical activity. Although there are many benefits, based on RISKESDAS 2018, it is stated that 33.5% of Indonesians lack in physical activity with the most categories at the age of 10-14 and 15-19 years. Physical activity associated with salutogenic concept which described by the Sense of Coherence value. This study aims to find how to improve physical activity of undergraduate students Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, University of Gadjah Mada during pandemic. Methods of this study used quantitative approach with cross-sectional design which held online by share google form link to respondents in April-May 2021 during COVID-19 pandemic and involved 360 respondents who were selected by proportion sampling. Instrument used in the study were SOC-13 questionnaire, International Physical Activity Questionnaire short self-administered and Social Environment questionnaire. Statistical test using logistic regression with STATA 14. Result of this study shows that Social Environment and components in Sense Of Coherence affect how a person’s motivation in carrying out activities that beneficial to health such as doing regular physical activity. The results are statistically significant (p-value 0.0000 <0.05). Conclusion of this study, to increase physical activity for undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic, a good social environment and sense of coherence are needed.
Highlights
Healthy behavior is an effort made by everyone to maintain or improve their health condition, avoid health problems and achieve a positive image of their body [1]
The impact of other unhealthy lives is felt by the University of Gadjah Mada academic community, such as decreased work productivity due to illness and death of lecturers and employees at a relatively young age, this causes University Gadjah Mada to declare itself as a Health Promoting University [7]
Sense of Coherence and Social Environment variables statistically significantly affect the level of physical activity of male undergraduate students of FK-KMK Universitas of Gadjah Mada (UGM) (p-value was found to be 0.0000 < 0.05)
Summary
Healthy behavior is an effort made by everyone to maintain or improve their health condition, avoid health problems and achieve a positive image of their body [1]. Based on brief information gathering on one of the resource persons, the FK-KMK UGM student with the initials “F”, said that FK-KMK students have a busy class schedule from morning to evening, tutorial or practicum lectures sometimes force students to come early and leave late, not to mention various assignments both individually and in groups such as journal reading, paper making, PBL (Problem Based Learning), which makes them stay on campus to look for wi-fi or find literature in the library until late The density of these activities makes researchers interested in knowing how they can still get along in a social environment and implement healthy behaviors such as physical activity. Is it true that sense of coherence and social environment have positive effect in predict improvement of student’s physical activity during pandemic COVID-19 era?
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