| Abstract [eng] |
The Master`s thesis examines students' approach to healthy behaviour and its components: diet, physical activity, stress problems, and harmful habits. A questionnaire survey focuses on various lifestyle aspects of third-year students of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Social Welfare and Disability Studies of Šiauliai University. The survey involved 200 respondents. The questionnaire was divided into the following five blocks of questions: 1. Demographic information: 7 questions regarding respondents' gender, age, faculty, course, and place of residence. 2. Health behaviour concept: 7 questions related to students' living conditions, the quality of life, and health assessment. 3. Stress and recreation factors: 7 questions to determine how many hours of decent night's sleep students get, if they suffer from exhaustion and stress, how they deal with stress, if they undergo medical checkups. 4. Physical activity: 5 questions covering the issues of students' involvement in physical activity or sports, reasons students should do physical exercise and keep fit. 5. Importance of nutrition: 6 questions to identify students' eating habits and peculiarities, taking food supplements, and choosing dining places. Hypothesis argues that students take inadequate care of their health, are not interested in health behaviour, show small bouts of physical activity, neglect healthy nutrition and experience stress. With this data, hypothesis can be partially confirmed: students have poor diets and are exposed to stress. Nevertheless, the data shows students are meeting the recommended levels of physical exercise and do not avoid physical activity. The results have shown that students are quite active but most of the students are satisfied with the quality of their life on the average whereas student health rating scores represented good health. The larger half of the students reported fatigue while studying. Students receive the amount of physical activity they need by exercising once or twice a week moreover students are strongly motivated for physical activities by their desire to maintain a good body shape or image. Half of the students reported sticking to a healthy diet while the other half indicated they did not care about that. Most of the students have meals at home however many students do not avoid eating fast food. Recommendations based on the findings are proposed and the student health behaviour pattern has been developed. |
