Issue: 2017, Vol. 22, No. 3
The experience of the examination of some aspects of health status in students by anonymous internet-questionnaires
- Keywords
- questionnaire, health status self-estimation, physical development, Internet-questionnaire, new information technologies
- Abstarct
- Objective - to approbate the technique of anonymous internet-questionnaires in order to obtain the necessary information concerning various aspects of healthy life style in students. Material and methods. Internet-questionnaire concerning students’ health status was performed by specially developed application form using Google Forms within one semester of 2016/2017 academic year. The application form was placed on http: //www.isma.ivanovo.ru (free access); the information about the questionnaire was passed to the dean’ offices and network social groups. 287 students participated in the study. Analytical and statistical techniques were used in the estimation of the results. Results. The data concerning health status of the respondents, chronic diseases prevalence, physical development were obtained in the course of the investigation. The calculation of body mass index by Quetelet index demonstrated the subjectivity of self-estimation, one third of the respondents (39,6%) failed in the proper evaluation of their physical development.The examined students made many suggestions concerning the optimization of the Academy’s activity in the sphere of health preservation; these suggestions had both general organizational significance and particular characteristics. Some advantages of the innovative technique of the information receipt were marked in the comparison of internet-questionnaire with the traditional one; these advantages were in the first place connected with the economy of time, material and man-power resources, the increase of the quality of the forms filling in and the decrease the percentage of their spoilage and the observation of absolute anonymity. Conclusions. The developed and approbated technique of anonymous internet-questionnaire allowed to receive the necessary information concerning particular aspects of the students health status. In the comparison with traditional inquire Internet-questionnaire was proved to be the most effective form of necessary data collection, it took into account the peculiarities of information exchange in youth environment and it was the preferable mode to bring their opinion in students.
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