Rekreacja ruchowa w stylu życia studentów I roku studiów łódzkich uczelni

Abstract

The biggest chance to improve society’s health is to shape the pro-healthy consciousness, motivation and responsibility in terms of people’s everyday behaviour, especially health-related issues. This should mostly take place during the school education period, when young people develop sense of responsibility for their own health, through gaining knowledge and skills. The school health education should be conducted, so that pupils could learn the benefits of having vast knowledge in the field of human body functioning and proper nutrition as well as of maintaining high level of hygiene and regular physical exercise and its influence on particular body systems and organs. The aim of this paper was to characterize pro-health attitudes and behaviours of the first-year students of some of Łódź’s universities. The questionnaire study was conducted among 378 students of the first grade of four of Łódź’s universities: Uniwersytet Medyczny (Medical University), Politechnika Łódzka (Technical University of Łódź), Wyższa Szkoła Turystyki i Hotelarstwa (College of Tourism and Hotel Industry) and Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna (University of Humanities and Economics). The pro-health attitude indicator of the students is at a satisfactory level and according to PRO-ZET scale it is 201.7, which is 74.7% of the maximum value. 83.1% of the studied population consider themselves as healthy persons. Considering their own health, as much as 78.6% of the studied population believe, they are making good choices, mostly in terms of good nutrition (36.1%), personal hygiene (27.6%), physical recreation (22.7%) and avoiding habits (9.2%). For all the respondents, health is an important and precious value, both in individual and social terms. The respondents rated their general level of health education and pro-health attitude as satisfactory. The term of healthy lifestyle was generally perceived in a correct way by the students. They realize the importance of healthy lifestyle and its basic components. Despite verbal declarations, to a large extent students’ attitude does not promote healthy lifestyle.