Relationship Between Nutritional Status and Students' Physical Condition

Nirwandi, Sefri Hardiansyah
2020 Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)   unpublished
The issue in this research is the low level of FIK UNP students' physical condition. The aim of this research to determine the relationship between nutritional status and students' physical condition. This is a correlational research design involving 17 students of FIK UNP. Nutritional status data were obtained by measuring the Body Mass Index (BMI), and students' physical condition data were obtained through test in several aspects including speed, strength, explosive power and endurance. Data
more » ... were analyzed using Pearson's product-moment correlation. The results showed that the average of students' nutritional status was at 19.81 with normal classification, while the average of students' physical condition was 56.01 with good classification. Based on the statistical analysis, it was obtained that tobserve 1.79> ttable 1.753. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between nutritional status and FIK UNP students' physical condition.
doi:10.2991/assehr.k.200824.075 fatcat:hqwzypy6cbhezjxxm4nlgkzksm