دراسة مستوى النشاط البدني لدى المراهقين في طور المتوسط بالجزائر العاصمة

Abstract EN

Physical activity is an essential factor in the development of physical condition and health, also to increase energy consumption it can also plays an effective role in the prevention from overweight and obesity and diseases resulting from these cases, As in other countries of the world, Algeria witness experiencing changes in lifestyle, changes that reduce physical activity in favor of physical inactivity.

Despite the importance of physical activity, there are only few local studies in Algeria that are concerned with this subject.

This can explains the lack of data on the level of physical activity of any category of age and the Absence of any type of recommendations on the daily level of physical activity required by each individual in the community.

The study aimed to identify the level and nature of physical activity in a sample of teenage students in the intermediate stage using the questionnaire designed to detect the level of physical activity known as the Factorial method, through which the researcher can identify the physical activities exercised by the students within 24 hours preceding the interview , The most important results were that the average level of physical activity was 1.65 in males and 1.39 in females with 21% of the sample suffering from physical inactivity compared to only 5% with a level of physical activity that can be described as very active.

The most important activities practiced by adolescents are sleeping at 37% for males, 38.7% for females and sleeping 24.1% for males and 28.3% for females, which reduces the time of physical activities that contribute positively to adolescent health.