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Do spiritual and global health associate with vigorous physical activity among adolescents? / Agnė Slapšinskaitė-Dackevičienė, Vaida Šūmakarienė, Monika Žemaitaitytė, Kastytis Šmigelskas
Type of publication
Konferencijų tezės nerecenzuojamame leidinyje / Conference theses in non-peer-reviewed publication (T2)
Title
Do spiritual and global health associate with vigorous physical activity among adolescents? / Agnė Slapšinskaitė-Dackevičienė, Vaida Šūmakarienė, Monika Žemaitaitytė, Kastytis Šmigelskas
Publisher (trusted)
World Health Organization
Date Issued
2022-06-08
Extent
p. 30-30.
Is part of
Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) : Padua, Italy, 8-10 June 2022 : Abstract booklet / World Health Organization Collaborative Cross-National Study. Universita Degli Studi Di Padova. Padua : World Health Organization, 2022.
Version
Originalus / Original
Description
2.3 COVID-19 & Health literacy
Field of Science
Abstract
Background: Global and spiritual health are topics of emerging scientific interest. However, both have been examined relating to general health indicators or climate anxiety without paying much attention to its potential impact on physical activity (PA) [1,2].Research shows that adolescents with stronger expressed spiritual health consistently report higher levels of general health. The evidence on adolescent vigorous PA clearly indicates long- and short-term health effects, as well as sustainable habit-forming properties [2,3].Objective: We analyzed how global and spiritual health are associated with PA among adolescents. Methods: Data were collected in December 2021 during the HBSC national pilot survey in Lithuania (n=453, aged 13.96±2.20 years). From the self-report questionnaire, the indicators reflecting PA, global health, spiritual health, demographic, and socioeconomic status were analyzed. The main analysis was conducted using univariate logistic regression method. Results: Vigorous PA was sufficient among 27.1% girls and 46.4% boys. Among adolescents, spirituality can be considered as a predictor of higher vigorous PA (OR=1.35,95% CI [1.04-1.76], p=0.023), while global health showed weaker and non-significant association with vigorous PA (OR=1.26, 95% CI [0.97-1.62], p=0.078).Conclusions: This study reveals that spiritual health is more predictive for vigorous PA than global health. These results add to our knowledge about the relevance of the construct of spiritual health in the PA process. Following this, it might be interesting to further explore possible determinants of spiritual health and vigorous PA interaction among adolescents. A similar but non-significant associations of global health should also be explored in more detail. Conclusions: Teachers and parental support are major influential factors in preventing risky behaviour of alcohol consumption during crises among adolescence. Our finding scan contribute to developing and implementing intervention programs to address the consequences of crises that affect adolescents.
Type of document
type::text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper
Other Identifier(s)
(LSMU ALMA)991663885507106
Coverage Spatial
Italija / Italy (IT)
Language
Anglų / English (en)