Study on the development of health-saving competence of future border guard officers

Abstract

The paper presents a methodological system for the formation of health-saving competence of future border guard officers at higher military educational institution. The system is focused on the educational component of training and familiarizing cadets with the specifics and ways of forming this professionally important quality using the potential of interactive and research training methods. The article aims at justification, implementation and verification of the effectiveness of the methodological system during an experimental study in which 132 cadets aged 17-22 years took part, including 118 boys and 14 girls. The research methods used were: retrospective and comparative analysis, generalization, pedagogical observation, questionnaires and surveys, testing, expert assessments, experiment and methods of statistical assessment. At the end of the formative stage of the experiment, cadets of the experimental group have a predominantly high (23,88 %) and average (55.22%) levels of health-saving competence. In the control group the indicators were 12.31% and 46.15%, respectively. It has been proved that the proposed methodological system allows to increase the motivation of cadets to preserve their health, its physical, social and mental (spiritual) components, improve their level of awareness of the importance of health in personal and professional life, improve the skills of health-saving activities.