مدى ملائمة وزن الحقيبة المدرسية للوزن المسموح به طبيا في نموذجية جامعة اليرموك

Abstract EN

In this paper, data was collected about school bag weight for a random sample of students from 1st to 9th grade at Yarmouk University Model School.

The aim was to obtain the ratio of school bag weight to student’s body weight and see how suitable this ratio with respect to the medically permitted ratio.

It turned out that students in the 1st stage had mean body weight of 29.2 kg, mean bag weight of 3.9 kg, mean ratio bag weight to body weight of 13.9% and 86.6% of students of this stage carry bags with weight at least 10% of their body weight.

For students in the 2nd stage, mean body weight was 42.4 kg, mean bag weight 5.5 kg, mean ratio bag weight to body weight was 13.7% and 81.5% students of this stage carry bags with weight at least 10% of their body weight.

The results for 3rd stage students were; 58.5 kg mean body weight, 5.4 kg mean bag weight, 9.86% was the mean ratio of bag weight to body weight and 44.8% was the percentage of students with bag weight at least 10% of their body weight.

Other variables such as height, gender and body mass index was also measured.

According to these results, we recommend that the model school administration should pay attention to this problem.