Author/Authors :
Hosseinzadeh، Kazem نويسنده Health Education Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran , , Alipour Heidari، Mahmoud نويسنده Faculty of Social Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical
Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran , , Karbord، Asghar نويسنده Faculty of Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences,
Qazvin, IR Iran , , Azimian، Jalil نويسنده Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, School of Nursing and
Midwifery, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR
Iran , , Alizadeh، Atefeh نويسنده Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Qazvin University of
Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran ,
Abstract :
There are some mediators that affect physical activity such as
knowledge and attitude. Some barriers such as lack of time, bad
environments may impede doing physical activities. It sounds that lack
of time is a common barrier to do physical activity in nursing and
midwifery students. Since they encounter some factors that affect their
health, this knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study may be helpful
to maintain and improve their health. The current study aimed to explore
the knowledge, attitude and practice related to physical activity in
nursing and midwifery students. By simple randomized sampling method,
200 subjects were enrolled in the study. Based on the international
physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ), a standard checklist was used to
gather the related data. Then, the data were analyzed by SPSS software
in 95% confidence interval (CI). Mean and standard deviation of
subjects’ attitude was 5.9 ± 3.1 (minimum: -3, maximum: 14, median: 6).
There was no significant difference in the means of knowledge and
attitude between genders, and also between nursing and midwifery
students. There was significant difference only regarding walking (P =
0.017), stretching (P = 0.050) and body building (P = 0.040) between the
students in 95% CI. Based on the current study finding, planning is
needed to increase KAP of the students regarding physical activity. Some
types of physical activity are more attractive than others for males and
females separately, yet it is important to encourage the nursing and
midwifery students to examine a variety of physical activities and help
them find suitable activities.
