[Effects of health education intervention on the physical activity of adolescents].

Abstract

A report is given about the results of physical activities in spare time and the physical capacities of 967 pupils of the 7th to 10th form. These pupils were asked and examined in 1987 in the country of Hohenmölsen. Particularly, the results are compared with the basic investigation on pupils of the same age in 1983. Nearly half of the pupils finished an interventional programme. The other part served as a control group. The comparison of both cross-section investigations even as the statements of a longitudinal-section study and a cross-section study from 1985 documented a good up to a very good increase of physical activities in spare time and physical capacities with regard to the complex test and long-distance race, especially at girls. The control group also shows an increase of the examined parameters. Finally, aspects for the improvement of the results in both groups are discussed.