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investigate the patterns and correlates of physical activity in ado-lescents of Dhaka city, Bangladesh.

Methods: A total of 798 students (416 boys, 382 girls; aver-age age 14.3, SD 1.1) from eight secondary schools in Dhakacity, Bangladesh completed the three-day physical activity recall(3DPAR) and a self-administered questionnaire. Metabolic Equiva-lent Task (MET) values derived from the 3DPAR were averaged toderive an estimate of mean activity level for each day. Parents com-pleted a separate questionnaire to provide household/family-leveldata.

Results: Two-third (66%) of the respondents met the recom-mended guidelines of 60 min of moderate or 30 min of vigorousphysical activity daily. The average MET value per day was 1.87 (SD0.49) with 1.76 (SD 0.45) for girls and 1.97 (SD 0.50) for boys. Multi-ple regression analysis indicated that adolescents’ physical activitywas positively associated with being male, involvement in teamsports at school, parental support for activity, and having a fatherin a professional occupation. There was an inverse association withhaving an over-weight parent and a father in self-employment ora trade occupation.

Discussion: Our study shows that one in every three secondaryschool children in Dhaka city is not sufficiently active. Additionalpopulation-based studies, including regional and metropolitanareas, are needed to better understand the physical activity pat-terns of this country’s adolescents.

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Consequences of physical activities officers onvillagers’ sport, exercise, and recreationparticipation in Thailand

Y. Sawangdee ∗, C. Yousomboon, K. Pongpradit

Mahidol University, Thailand

Background: Thailand nowadays has some public policies topromote sport, exercise, and recreation in the community nation-wide. The purpose is to contribute be active throughout the nation,and has established Physical Activities Officers since 2005. Theirrole and function is to promote sport, exercise, and recreation atvillage level. There are 954 persons in the country.

Methods: This study is a national survey which conductedbetween August and November of 2013. The research examinessome consequences that have been happening at village level afterthe nation has been employing this position. Research design isusing quantitative and qualitative methods. The respondent forquantitative survey is villagers, and total sample size is 1305 cases.While focus group discussion, small group interview, and in-depthinterviews with villagers, village’s headman, woman’s club leader,youth’s club leader, elderly club leader, sub-district administrativeofficers, health personnel etc were employed.

Results: Main result from quantitative survey shows that mostof persons at village level ages between 11 and 80 years old areactive after having this person initiate. They normally doing someexercise and playing some sports such as foot ball, volley ball, ten-nis, badminton, etc. and have some recreation activities such assinging some local song, playing some local musical instruments,playing some local sports, dancing some local styles with some localdrums together when they have some spare times. There are somenew types of sport and physical activities have been promoted. For

example, numbers of persons who are riding long distance bicycleshave been increasing. Jogging, running, and walking in commu-nity’s park are getting popular. Number of training and teachingchildren and youth for some international standard rules such asfor foot ball, basket ball, and volley ball, are occurring regularly.The qualitative studies confirm that most of villagers such as villageheadman, sub-district administrative officers, health personnel atcommunity level, women club members, youth’s club members,elderly club member and so on are very much satisfy with this pol-icy. Some important quotation is that ‘having this position at villagelevel can reduce numbers of conflicts among youth, and able toreduce number of alcohol consumption, cigarettes smoking amongthem’.

Discussion: Thus, it is important to promote this policy byestablishing this position in other countries because, from Thailandexperiences, it can increase number of positive activities thatrelated to be active, and able to reduce some deviant behaviorsamong youth and others.

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2011–2013 changes in physical activity level inCzech adults

Z. Hamrik ∗, D. Sigmundova, M. Kalman,F. Salonna, J. Pavelka, E. Sigmund

Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacky University inOlomouc, Czech Republic

Introduction: The issue of insufficient level of physical activity,increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among the pop-ulation and a corresponding increase in mass non-communicablediseases is a serious public health issue in the Czech Republic. Thepurpose of this study is to describe 2 years changes in the preva-lence of physical activity in Czech adults using the Global PhysicalActivity Questionnaire (GPAQ).

Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were conducted on a rep-resentative sample of randomly selected Czech adults (18–90 yearsof age, N2011 = 1727; N2013 = 1751; 48.4% male) participating in theGPAQ study 2011 and 2013. The level of physical activity was clas-sified according to the amount of MET-minutes per week as high,moderate or low. In a statistical analysis the Crosstabs and relatedAdjusted residual analysis were used.

Results: Irrespective of age and gender, 40.6% of Czech adultsshowed a low level of PA, 21.3% fell within the moderate level of PAand 38.1% of people showed a high level of PA in 2013. The overalllevel of physical activity significantly decreases in the age cate-gory 40–64 in males and in the age categories 18–39 and 40–64in females from 2011–2013, while the proportion of males andfemales in the ‘low level’ category significantly increases and thecategory of ‘high active’ decreases.

Discussion: Although the overall proportion of ‘high’ activeadults seems to be relatively high, it is necessary to monitor andunderstand the trends and changes in the occurrence of physi-cal inactivity with a special focus on the female population. Theseresults also imply a high importance of physical activity promotingactivities in the Czech Republic.

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