Browsing by Subject "fyysinen toimintakyky"
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(2016)The purpose of this study was to create an overview of parent`s thoughts about measuring in physical education and the new Move! monitoring system of physical performance. The Move! monitoring system is a national fitness testing system for fifth and eight graders. It will start in all Finnish primary schools in August 2016. The research problems were formulated to find out about parents thoughts about fitness testing, children`s physical performance and measuring it in physical education. The study also explored how parents feel about the written feedback of their children`s physical performance in new Move! program. This statistical study was made in March 2016. The research subjects were parents of all fifth graders in Helsinki primary schools. The data was collected from the parents by an electronic enquiry. The sample consisted of 103 parents, 27 men and 76 women. The data was analyzed by using SPSS Statistics 23 program and frequencies, cross-tabulations and Pearson`s correlations. In this study, parents felt that it is possible to influence children`s physical activity with physical education. Parents wanted to get a feedback about their children`s physical performance, but they did not think that fitness testing in physical education is the best way to motivate children to be more physically active. Even though parents felt fitness testing in physical education only little positive, they thought that the feedback from the Move! program which describes children`s physical performance motivate strongly both pupils and parents. Only 66 % of the parents thought that the new Move! monitoring system of physical performance is necessary but parents did not have any experience about program before this study. Maybe after they have got to know the Move! program via their own children`s measurements and feedback, they will change their opinion about it. This research reveals that new Move! program has a possibility to achieve its most important effort promoting pupils wellbeing and taking care of physical performance with feedback that motivates both pupils and parents to work for a better physical performance.
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(2023)Aim. Depression weakens people's ability to function, affecting, for example, their ability to take care of themselves and maintain social relationships. In addition, depression has been found to be connected to impaired physical functioning. However, studies have mostly focused on the level of depression syndrome, even though specific depressive symptoms have been found to have different associations with, for example, functional capacity and risk factors. The aim of this study was to find out whether depressive symptoms have different associations with impaired physical functioning, regardless of the level of overall depression, and whether symptom-specific associations are stronger with somatic than with other symptoms. The associations were measured separately in relation to the two domains of physical functioning: physical disability and physical activity. In addition, I aimed to find out, whether the associations between physical functioning and depression symptoms differ depending on gender or the number of somatic diseases. Methodology. The study sample (n=5533) consisted of the US NHANES 2017–2018 cohort. Depression was assessed with the PHQ-9 questionnaire, physical disability with the PFQ questionnaire and physical activity with the PAQ questionnaire. The associations between specific depressive symptoms and physical disability were studied using quasi-Poisson regression, and the associations between symptoms and levels of physical activity were studied using logistic regression analysis. Results and Conclusions. In the domains of physical functioning, I found symptom-specific effects for physical disability but not for physical activity. Among the somatic symptoms, fatigue (IRR=1.14, p<.001) and problems related to sleep (IRR=1.13, p<.001), and among the cognitive-affective symptoms, decreased interest in things previously perceived as interesting (IRR=1.07, p=.001) and concentration-related problems (IRR=1.06, p=.002) were associated with physical disability, regardless of the overall depression. Gender did not affect the relationship between depressive symptoms and physical functioning. For physical disability only, the symptom associations were stronger in those with more than one somatic illness than in those with no more than one somatic illness. Examining the associations of specific depressive symptoms regarding physical functioning can bring valuable information to the prevention and treatment of depression by, for example, helping to identify the most important treatment targets in terms of symptom maintenance for those depressed patients with impaired physical functioning.
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(2023)Aim. Depression weakens people's ability to function, affecting, for example, their ability to take care of themselves and maintain social relationships. In addition, depression has been found to be connected to impaired physical functioning. However, studies have mostly focused on the level of depression syndrome, even though specific depressive symptoms have been found to have different associations with, for example, functional capacity and risk factors. The aim of this study was to find out whether depressive symptoms have different associations with impaired physical functioning, regardless of the level of overall depression, and whether symptom-specific associations are stronger with somatic than with other symptoms. The associations were measured separately in relation to the two domains of physical functioning: physical disability and physical activity. In addition, I aimed to find out, whether the associations between physical functioning and depression symptoms differ depending on gender or the number of somatic diseases. Methodology. The study sample (n=5533) consisted of the US NHANES 2017–2018 cohort. Depression was assessed with the PHQ-9 questionnaire, physical disability with the PFQ questionnaire and physical activity with the PAQ questionnaire. The associations between specific depressive symptoms and physical disability were studied using quasi-Poisson regression, and the associations between symptoms and levels of physical activity were studied using logistic regression analysis. Results and Conclusions. In the domains of physical functioning, I found symptom-specific effects for physical disability but not for physical activity. Among the somatic symptoms, fatigue (IRR=1.14, p<.001) and problems related to sleep (IRR=1.13, p<.001), and among the cognitive-affective symptoms, decreased interest in things previously perceived as interesting (IRR=1.07, p=.001) and concentration-related problems (IRR=1.06, p=.002) were associated with physical disability, regardless of the overall depression. Gender did not affect the relationship between depressive symptoms and physical functioning. For physical disability only, the symptom associations were stronger in those with more than one somatic illness than in those with no more than one somatic illness. Examining the associations of specific depressive symptoms regarding physical functioning can bring valuable information to the prevention and treatment of depression by, for example, helping to identify the most important treatment targets in terms of symptom maintenance for those depressed patients with impaired physical functioning.
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