The Effects of Physical Activity Program in External Activities On Life Quality of Primary School Students

The aim of this study is to determine the difference between the primary school students who participate in physical activity practices and the physical activity program applied to increase the quality of life on primary school students who do not attend. The research was carried out at the Vestel Primary School (n = 878) in the center of Manisa. The study was carried out on the students between 12 and 14 years of age (n = 297) who were exposed to stress and stress due to the TEOG Exam applied by the Ministry of National Education. Kiddo Kindl Adolescent Scale was used to collect data. In SPSS 17.0 statistical program; In the pre-test post-test comparison, the T-test in the Dependent Groups and the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test were applied for the data that did not comply with the normal distribution. In the comparisons between the intervention group and the control group, the T test was used for the data in the normal distribution for continuous data and the Chi-square , Whitney U test was used for the categorical data. For type 1 error, α = 0.05 was taken. As a result; As a result of the physical activity program applied to the students in the intervention group, it was found that the total quality of life scores increased more than the scores of the students in the control group and statistically significant difference was found between the pretest and posttest scores