A study on the perception of physical therapy proper students regarding putting a gym inside the campus

Date of Completion

1998

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Keywords

Exercise, College Students, Fitness Centers

Abstract

As Physical Therapy Interns, the authors advocate exercise in their treatment regimen. They always advise patients to exercise regularly for fitness in order to retard secondary complications of disease entities or at least minimize disabilities, but are they doing it themselves? This study aims to look into the perception of Proper students who has basic knowledge on exercise as to their favorability on the establishment of an exercise gym inside the DLSU-HSC. Stratified Random Sampling was used as sampling procedure wherein stratification was done according to year levels, to be able to pick homogenous sampling units from each stratum (year level) considering they have the same academic loads and level of understanding with regards to the advantages and disadvantages of an exercise. This is in hope of obtaining a sample that is most representative of the total population. Upon analysis of results, it showed that almost all respondents were in favor of having the gym in the campus, so further statistical tests need not be done to check its significance. The total favorability of 303 students or 94% would definitely make the remaining 2 or 6% negligible. The aforementioned advantages outweighed up a gym inside the campus. A high favorability in putting up a gym inside DLSU -HSC was obtained from the PT Proper students. The authors found promotion of general body conditioning as the primary advantage of putting up a gym whereas allocation of school funds to more important matters ranked first among the disadvantages. Since the study showed favorable results, the authors highly recommend to the administrators of DLSU-HSC the implementation of the proposal.

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