Relation of the physical activity level-age, gender and bodymass index among the teachers

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This research aims to determine physical activity levels of the teachers from different branches, to evaluate the relation between age, gender, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity level and to encourage individuals to do physical activities for healthier people and a healthier community by giving importance to the benefits of the physical activities.

The universe and the population of this research are the teachers who work in Beypazarı town of Ankara 286 teachers from all branches are taken to the research. After the ages, heights, weights and BMIs of the subjects are taken their physical activity levels are determined by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and classified as active level, low active level and sufficient active level. At the end of the research the energy consuming of the subjects is seen as 2142,761614,32 MET-min. /week in average. It is also seen that % 17,1 of the teachers are not physically active, % 63,9 of them are in low activity level and % 19,0 of them are in sufficient activity level to protect their health. Among the subjects whose body mass indexes are below 25 kg/ m2 the % 20,4 of them are not physically active but this proportion decreases to % 15,2 among the subjects whose body mass indexes are above 25 kg/ m2. When the physical activity points of the male and female subjects are compared it can be said that there isn’t a meaningful difference between total physical activity points, the medium level physical activity points and the physical activity points related to walking (p>0.05). On the other hand when the intense physical activity points are examined it can be said that there is a statistically meaningful difference between male and female subjects (p<0.01). When the physical activity points of the subjects whose body mass indexes are below 25 kg/ m2 and those whose body mass indexes are above 25 kg/ m2 are compared it can be said that there isn’t a statistically meaningful difference between total physical activity points, the medium level physical activity points and the physical activity points related to walking (p>0.05). On the other hand when the intense physical activity points and sitting times are examined it can be said that there is a statistically meaningful difference between the subjects whose body mass indexes are below 25 kg/ m2 and those whose body mass indexes are above 25 kg/ m2 (p<0.01).

According to these results it was the seen that teachers working in Beypazarı were’t enough physicaly active.