Physical health and prospects of its improvement for music students of the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts

Abstract

Statement of the problem. Objectives, material, and methods of the research. Health and healthy lifestyle of student young people, including those who studies in the sphere of art, is the mortgage of their capacity and success in future professional activity. In order to improve the quality of educational work on the discipline “Fundamentals of physical education and a healthy lifestyle”, the studies and estimation of main parameters of psychical, social and physical health of music students of the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts were undertook. The 127 students of master’s degree course took part in the study, among them 61 students of the 2019 graduating class and 66 graduates of the 2020. On the first stage of our investigation the diagnostic research methods were used; on its second phase the mathematical statistic methods were applied. The results of diagnostics of individual psychical, social and physical health (without the account of gender approach) are analysed for the students-musicians of master’s degree separation 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 school. In the course of the study, the results of testing the mental, social and physical health of master students (without taking into account the gender approach) of two faculties of the University – the musical performance and orchestral ones were analyzed. The comparative quantitative analysis on several various indexes of quality of music students health separating 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 academic years, was conducted. Also, the cluster analysis with application of mathematical processing of the statistic data, taking into account the gender differentiation, was undertook to reveal the current state of health and perspectives of its perfection for male and female groups of the students. Research results. A comparison and grouping of five indicators determining the diagnosis of a student’s physical health (anthropometric, respiratory, strength, cardiovascular, restorative) showed that in the 2019/2020 academic year, students-musicians of the master’s degree of the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts were inferior to the students of 2018/2019 year in terms of body weight, hand strength, vital capacity of the lungs, and an integral indicator of physical health. Positive results were recorded only for two indicators – cardiovascular and recovery. A high level of physical health was not revealed, however, the students of orchestral faculty have the better results than the students of the performance and musicology faculty. Conclusion. According to the results of research, it becomes obvious that the way to improve the physical health of music students can be not only the usual increase of training in academic group classes, but also a qualitative change in the planning of practical classes in physical education based on the principle of individual differentiation: choosing a direction, determining the content and ratio of physical exertion for each cluster subgroup of male and female students. When differentiating work programs of physical training of music students, it should be taken into account that the effect on the body of various exercises is not the same and requires individual approach depending on the qualitative characteristics for each subgroup determined by cluster analysis.