Hygienic assessment of day mode and mental performance in children attending establishments of additional education

Abstract

There is given a hygienic assessment of a day regimen and mental capacity in children who are engaged in establishments of additional education. By the pair interfaced method there were created 4 groups of children: 3 main (the children visiting establishments of additional education) and group of comparison (trained only at school). There was performed questionnaire survey of parents of pupils according to the special questionnaire containing questions of the budget of time of activity of children. In compared groups of schoolmates the Burdona-Anfimov's proof test was executed. In children visiting the organizations of additional education, prevalence of violations of a day regimen (reduction of duration of a night dream, stay duration in the open air, activities for own choice) were established to be significantly higher, than in children engaged only in school. The level of mental capacity in pupils who do not have extracurricular load, is higher than that of children attending establishments of additional education. There were revealed significant inverse correlation between the duration of nocturnal sleep of children, the total weekly training time in extracurricular organizations and their level of mental capacity. The disturbances of the of the day regimen were prove to lead to a reduction of mental capacity in pupils.