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영어

In this study, the influence of leisure activity on obesity of elementary school children. In the question of the necessity of leisure activity, 98.5% of whole answerer was appeared as they recognized the necessity of leisure activity and there was not any significant difference between the children with obesity and normal children. In the question of leisure activity types, children mostly answered playing computer and watching TV and then answered practice and reading cartoons in sequence on weekdays. And they answered that they playing computer mostly and then practice secondly in their leisure time on weekends and holidays. It tells us that obesity is significantly influenced by reading books and watching TV on weekdays and practice on weekends among leisure activity(p<.001). It was appeared that 53.5% of the children answered that they had leisure time less then 2 hours, obesity. There was not any significant difference according to obesity or non-obesity, but it was indicated that there was a correlation between the duration of leisure time and obesity, because the normal children were indicated to have more leisure time on weekends than the children with obesity(p<.05)

한국어

이 연구에서는 초등학생들의 여가활동이 비만에 미치는 영향에 대하여 알아보고자 함을 목적으로 하였다. 여가활동의 필요성에 대해서는 비만아동과 정상아동 간에 유의적인 차이는 없었으나, 전체의 98.5%가 필요성을 인식하는 것으로 나타났다. 여가활동의 유형으로는 평일에는 조사대상자의 대부분이 컴퓨터와 TV 시청하기, 운동, 만화 읽기의 순으로 나타났다. 토요일과 일요일 공휴일에는 컴퓨터를 가장 많이 하고 다음으로 운동을 많이 하는 것으로 나타났다. 비만에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 여가활동 유형 중에서 평일의 책읽기와 TV 시청, 토요일의 운동하기가 유의적으로 나타났다(p<.001). 평일 여가시간은 53.5%가 2시간 미만의 여가시간을 보내는 것으로 나타나 비만여부에 따라서는 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았지만, 토요일과 일요일에는 정상아동이 비만아동보다 여가시간이 긴 것으로 나타났다(p<.05).