Date of Award
11-19-2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Health Science, MS
First Advisor
Marla Jones
Committee Members
Brian Church; Lance Bryant; Tom Adams
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2014 N23
Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to examine college students’ perceived level of fitness and disease risk compared to their actual fitness and disease risk as determined by health-related fitness assessments and questions regarding family history of hypokinetic diseases. METHODS: Perception of 100 college students was obtained using a questionnaire. Objective measurements of physical fitness categories and hypokinetic disease risk factors were measured using ACSM guidelines. Hypotheses were tested by using crosstabs and approximate significance was tested using Kendall’s tau-b. RESULTS: There was a significant difference between self-perceived and measured components of physical fitness categories. CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that college students did not perceive their physical fitness categories accurately and they did not understand the association between disease risk indicators and the future risk of developing a hypokinetic disease.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Nallamala, Surya, "College Students' Self-Perceived Risk of Hypokinetic Diseases and Physical Fitness" (2014). Student Theses and Dissertations. 742.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/742
