PENGARUH OLAHRAGA AEROBIK TERHADAP KONSENTRASI MAHASISWA FAKULTAS KEDOKTERAN UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA
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Abstract
Aerobic exercise has been known to have great benefits to cognitive
effect, however there are no consistent results in previous researches on relation
between aerobic exercise and concentration. Objective: This research aims to study
the effect of aerobic exercise towards concentration. Method: This study is
experimental research with 36 samples divided into 2 groups: control that not do
aerobic exercise, and intervention that do high intensity aerobic exercise for 75
minutes per week in 3 weeks. one week before and after intervention, the
concentration of the samples tested with attention network test to assesses alerting,
orienting, and conflict effect. The data are analyzed statistically. Result: Control and
intervention groups obtained no significant changes in between pretest and posttest of
the alerting (P: 0.895), orienting (P: 0.572) and conflict effect (P: 0.864). And the
results of the pretest and posttest of control group had significant changes in the
conflict effect (P: 0.019) and no significant changes in alerting (P: 0.072) and
orienting (P: 0.735), and the intervention group had significant changes in alerting
(P: 0.02) and conflict effect (P: 0.001) and no significant changes in orienting effect
(P: 0.653). There’s no significant difference found in the comparison of the total
concentration score from pretest and posttest of both control (P: 0.778) and
intervention groups (P: 0.571). Conclusion: In this study, aerobic exercise doesn’t
affect the concentration of students of the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Airlangga.
Further research with longer duration and strict control over other factors is
required