Students’ attitude towards personal health

Abstract

Health deterioration of young people has become an important social problem for modern society. For almost two years, the whole world has been living in the conditions of a pandemic. And for the last six months, Ukraine has also been living in war. This has a negative impact on the health of the Ukrainian nation, in particular on the student youth, as the future generation of Ukraine. That’s why, the main task for a modern specialist in the physical education and sports sphere is the popularization of self-tuition to increase the physical activity level of student-age population as one of the main priorities for the healthy lifestyle formation. The purpose of the research is to create pedagogical conditions for the organization of self-tuition in physical culture to form a conscious attitude of students towards their own health. The research was conducted on the basis of Zaporizhzhya Polytechnic University in the organized process of mixed and online learning forms. The study engaged 319 male students aged 17-18, who were divided into two groups: control - CG (n = 157) and experimental - EG (n = 162). Students setting into the groups, as well as participation in the experiment was voluntarily. All male students were classified in the main medical group. There was developed and implemented the experimental methodology "Organization of physical education self-tuition". Comparison of results before and after the research established positive dynamics in EG with mathematical evidence (р˂0.05; p<0.001) for most indicators of testing the academic education and physical fitness of male students. The data obtained show that the developed methodology is effective and has the right to exist.