Factor Analysis of Health Indicators in Students of University of Mazandaran with Emphasize on Sport Activities

The one of university’s dynamic indexes is student’s health in all psychological, physical and sport aspects. Hence, this research has been creatively designed in order to evaluating current status and presenting the solutions for improving favorable health status among students with emphasize on sport activities.   

505 students (289 girls and 216 boys) from 13290 students of UMZ selected as sample size based on Morgan Table and responded to research-made questionnaire of 55 items. Its face and content validity was confirmed by 20 sport management experts and general doctors, and its reliability as well calculated about .82 via Alpha coefficient.

Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the seven components such as physical health, sport and well-being, weight control and nutrition, disease prevention, psychological health, sociological health, and avoiding from drug are the important reflectors of student’s health system (RMSEA= 0.098, df= 6, λ2= 13.45, CFI= 0.93, NFI= 0.90). In other way, the most important aspects of student’s health system contained avoiding from drug (r= .91, t= 3.57), and sociological health (r= .90, t= 3.40). Other findings revealed that girl students reported significantly more weight control and nutrition score than boy students (t= 2.61, df= 8, sig= .031).

Students health system has a variety aspects which perhaps deals with shortages in part of notification within sport settings. Despite the part of these problems in none contribution of sport activities on students health basket emphasized on life styles, but we can expect that codifying a strategic planning especially in section of sport for all, this system will more efficient.