Healthy Behaviors , Body Composition and Physical Fitness of the People in Health Network Community ,Tambon Khuanru, Rattaphum District, Songkhla Province

Abstract

         This study aimed 1) to examine health behaviors, body composition and physical fitness of a population in the Health Network Community of Tambon Khuanru; and 2) to investigate the relationship between the three factors of health behavior, body composition and physical fitness. The research sample was 243 people in the Tambon Khuanru Health Network Community. Research instruments included the health behavior questionnaire, instruments for measuring body composition and instruments for measuring physical fitness. Data were collected and measured by the researchers and experts in measuring body composition and physical fitness from Department of Physiology, Prince of Songkla University and the Center for Sport Science Regional Area 4. The statistics used in data analysis were: frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations, and Pearson Correlation was also used. The research results are as follow.

1. The overall health behavior of the population in the Community Health Network of Tambon Khuanru was at a moderate level.

2. The body composition and physical fitness of the research sample was at the normal and average levels, respectively.

3. The overall health behavior of the research subjects was positively correlated to their body composition and their physical fitness at a statistically significant level.