INFLUENCE OF HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGIES ON THE INDICES OF ACTIVE ATTENTION AND INFORMATION MASTERING AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN

Abstract

Childhood and adolescence are important periods for developing healthy lifestyle habits.A sufficient level of physical activity has a positive effect on neurocognitive processes and ensuresthe psychological well-being of school-aged children. In its turn, attention and concentrationare key factors of the academic success, adaptation and everyday life of young peoplе.Objective – to study the impact of school health care programs on the peculiarities oflearning and processing of information in schoolchildren.Materials and methods. The work analyzed the results of a comprehensive examination of79 schoolchildren aged 11-12 years, some of them (32 persons) were involved in a specialhealth care school program. The research included an examination by pediatrician andophthalmologist, measurement of functional indices of the cardiorespiratory system,assessment of the speed of learning and processing of the text information by proofreading.Results. The result of the students’ participation in the school- based health promotioninterventions for one year was the improvement of the cardiorespiratory system indices.The state of active attention during information processing – the reading speed of thetest task on attention concentration was higher in children of the experimental group(111.1±4.4 words/min.), compared to the indicator of the control group (96.9±2.4 words/min) (p<0.05). The accuracy of performing special tests, the level of attention switching,the ability to switch to new tasks quickly were better in the experimental group.Conclusions. The school- based health promotion interventions with increased physicalactivity, implemented in the educational process throughout the year, contributes to theimprovement of both individual cardiorespiratory indices and intellectual functions forlearning and processing of the text information.