The influence of physical education pause during school hours on the psychophysical state of first-year medical students

Abstract

An effective and accessible form of occupation in the university is a physical culture pause in its complex application with independent exercises outside of school time. Unfortunately, in universities it practically ceased to be used, but the physical culture pause itself may become an additional form of motor activity, as well as it solves the problem of active rest of students and increasing their ability to work. The purpose of the work is to investigate the effect of physical culture pause on the process of adaptation of freshmen to study at the university, as well as the psychophysical state of students. Methods of research: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical experiment, questionnaires, control tests (studying the mental state of students on the scale of D. D. Spielberg, the level of mental working capacity behind the Schultz table, concentration of attention according to the method of Münsterberg and the method of "10 words", research of workability the nervous system using the "tepping test"), methods of mathematical statistics. In the experimentalgroup there was a positive dynamics of the results of control tests on the self-esteem of the emotional state (the levels of reactive and personal anxiety decreased); increased concentration of students attention; improved mental performance. The complexes of physical culture pauses offered by us will promote the upbringing of the needs for a healthy lifestyle, the physical development of students, the acquisition of the necessary skills and abilities, and the orientation towards conscious health promotionthrough daily physical exercise. Thus, the inclusion in the mode of the day of additional motor activity (in our work is a physical culture pause), which is aimed at improving and training the mechanisms of adaptation, improvement of physical and mental conditions, allows freshmen to adapt faster to study at the university.