Analysis of physical activity in preschool children from Piła. Part 2. Motor skills, sports equipment and parents’ attitude towards physical activity
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
Aim. The aim of this study was to analyse motor skills in preschoolers from Piła and to investigate sports equipment owned by the children as well as their parents’ attitude towards physical activity.Material and methods. Parents of 165 preschoolers from Piła filled in questionnaires on their children’s motor skills, involvement of family members and other persons in teaching the children motor skills, sports equipment owned by the children and their own attitude towards physical activity, including parents’ attitude towards their children’s physical activity and parents’ physical activity. Statistical analysis was performed by the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 computer programme.Results. Gender had statistically significant influence on the percentages of children who had the skill of skating, rollerblading and skipping a rope, and who owned a skipping rope. Gender had also statistically significant influence on parents’ answers to the question whether their children’s physical activity at preschool was sufficient.Conclusions. It seems that the low percentages of physically active parents along with the low percentages of parents who stated that their knowledge of the role of physical activity in child’s development was sufficient may be one of the main causes of their children’s low level of physical activity. Lack of the preschool staff’s involvement in teaching the children motor skills is highly unfavourable. It is indispensable to work out, as soon as possible, an education programme for preschoolers’ parents and preschool staff, as well as for the local authorities, focused on the possibilities of increasing preschool children’s physical activity.
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Sylwia Merkiel, Wojciech Chalcarz
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