EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON BODY MASS INDEX OF GRADE 6 STUDENTS UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE PRIVATE EDUCATION PROMOTION KRABI
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The purpose of this research was to study and compare the effect of physical activities on body mass index of grade 6 students underlining the Office of Private Education Promotion of Krabi. The samples of this study were 30 overweight school children around 11 - 12 years of age who were selected using the simple random sampling method. The instruments used in this research consisted of the body weight scale, height scale, body mass index equation and score sheet. The statistics for the data analysis were mean, standard deviation, one - way repeated measures ANOVA and Bonferroni multiple comparison test. The significant level was set at .05.
Based on the analysis of the gathered data, the two findings were: 1) In mean score of Mean BMI of the experimental group during pre - training and after the 4th week of training, there was no difference, but in the average of BMI during training and after 8th weeks of training, there was a statistically significant difference at the .05 level. the BMI after the 8th week training was lower than after the 4th week and before the training respectively. 2) Compared body mass index between experimental groups. and the control group were significantly different at the .05 level. Both after the 4th week of training and after the 8th week, the experimental group had mean of body mass index less than the control group.
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