The Program to Promote an Exercise Behavior of Nursing Students of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University

Abstract

The research aimed to study the results of the program to promote an exercise behavior of nursing students of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. The samples were sixty students from the Faculty of Nursing of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University and Ratchathani University. Thirty nursing students from Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University were an experimental group that attended the exercise promotion program. Thirty nursing students from Ratchathani University were a control group. The study lasted for six weeks. Data were collected before and after the program. The research instrument was the interview whose confidence value was equivalent to .89. Statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test. The research findings were as follows : 1. After participating the program in question, the experimental group had a higher level of the exercise behavior than before. The change in question accounted for 96.67%. The control group that represented 60.00 % had the same level of an exercise behavior. 2. The study found that the students who participated in the exercise promotion program had a higher level of exercise than those who did not participate in the program.