Exercise Behavior of Kasetsart University’s student in Chalermphrakiat Sakon Nakhon Province Campus

Abstract

This research aims to study the exercise behavior of students in Kasetsart University, Sakonnakorn campus, Sakonnakorn province. The population is the students of Kasetsart University, Sakonnakorn campus about 7, 145. The sampling was randomly chosen by using Multi state random sampling. The size of the sampling was determined by finished table of Taro Yamane at the reliability level 95% and error ± 5%. There are 383 samples and then defined the ratio by the year 1-4 of student in each faculty. There are 148 students from faculty of Liberal arts and management, 119 students from faculty of science and engineering, 52 students from faculty of environment and agricultural industries, and 64 student from faculty of public health. The tool for information gathering is the questionnaire to collect information of exercise behavior of students in Kasetsart University, Sakonnakorn campus, Sakonnakorn province.
According to the research result. It found that students in Kasetsart University, Sakonnakorn campus, Sakonnakorn province has knowledge about how to exercise in high level (about 50.40%). The next one is medium level (about 36.60%) and the lowest level (about 13.10%). For the attitude about exercise, we found that most of the samples about 61.40% has medium attitude level and about 38.6% has high attitude level. The exercise behavior show that the samples has a good behavior in good level as following issue. When go to exercise, student wear shoes and cloth appropriately to each type of sport ( = 2.60, S.D = 0.54), the next one is student accept the rules and conditions of the sport place ( = 2.59, S.D = 0.55), and student exercise with an achievement every time ( = 2.55, S.D = 0.56), respectively. The samples have a medium level behavior in this following issues. Students keep going to exercise although there is something wrong with their body because they are enjoying ( = 1.88, S.D = 0.76), next one is that students will not going to exercise if there is no one go with them ( = 1.75, S.D = 0.68), and students usually have no plan for exercise (= 1.66, S.D = 0.64). For the exercise behavior that is in not good behavior are that the period of exercise depends on satisfaction, not the same time (  = 1.53, S.D = 0.58), and student exercise until tried and sweat ( = 1.45, S.D = 0.55). When consider the exercise behavior for overall sampling, we found that most of samples has medium level of exercise behavior about 90%, the next one is a good level about 8.40%, and not so good behavior about 0.80%.