The Study of Knowledge, Attitude and
Practice Towards Physical Activity
College Students Living on Campus in
Shahid Beheshti University of
Medical Science
Abstract
Background: Regarding prevalence of non-communicable
diseases such as primary hypertension, osteoporosis, and
cardiovascular diseases that sedentary is responsible for
them; health policy makers plan to encourage people to do
more physical activity. In this study, Knowledge, attitude
and practice towards physical activity and its Related Factors
of College Students Living on Campus in Shahid Beheshti
University of medical science were determined.
Methods: In this descriptive analytic survey, 665 individuals
College Students Living on Campus in Shahid Beheshti
University of medical science were selected by clustering
sampling method. Data collected using a questionnaire and
analyzed by SPSS16 (Pearson, spearman, ANOVAand T-test).
Result: 54.9% of the subjects were female and 45.1% were
male. Mean age of participants was 21.82 years for female
and 22.76 years for male. Mean scores of knowledge was
73±1.72 for male and 78.901.66± for female. In addition
mean scores of attitude was 79.18 for male and 74.33 for
female and mean scores of practice was 228.78 minute per
week for male and 174.41minute per week for female.
Conclusion: Results indicated that students had no optimal
practice towards physical activity. Thus, more attention is
necessary to be paid by authorities to this specific topic and
some measures are essential in training student
