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- Title
Water in Students' Life and its Impact on their Health.
- Authors
Griban, Grygoriy P.; Filatova, Olena V.; Bosenko, Anatolii I.; Tamozhanska, Ganna V.; Lytvynenko, Andrii M.; Topchii, Mariia S.; Orlyk, Nadiia A.; Prontenko, Kostiantyn V.
- Abstract
Aim: Is to study the role of water in the life of students and to investigate the impact of its quality on the health of students who did sports. materials and methods: The study was conducted at Polissya National University (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) in 2018-2020. Thus, 509 students between the ages of 17 and 23 who did not do sports and 317 student-athletes were surveyed. The level of students' health was examined according to the methodology of G.L. Apanasenko. Results: It was found that the majority of students who did not do sport (97.5% of males and 96.7% of females) did not stick to the water consumption schedule, while 50.8% of males and 52.2% of females who did sport followed strict norms of the water consumption schedule to maintain water balance. According to most health indicators, students-athletes had better average values of the studied indicators than those students did not do sport. Conclusions: Water plays an important role in the lives of students and especially those students who do sport. High-quality water, sticking to water consumption schedule, especially during prolonged physical exercise and at high temperatures have a positive effect on the body and improve the health of students.
- Subjects
WATER consumption; COLLEGE students; COLLEGE athletes; WATER; HEALTH of college students
- Publication
Acta Balneologica, 2021, Vol 164, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
2082-1867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36740/ABAL202102104