Morphofunctional Status of Instructors of Higher Educational Institutions During Their Pedagogical Activities

Abstract

The aim: To research the morphofunctional status of instructors of higher educational institutions of di"erent age groups in the process of their pedagogical activities. Materials and methods: The research was conducted in the period from 2019 to 2021. The research involved 126 instructor offcers (men) of different age groups: under 30 years of age – 21 people, 31-35 years of age – 27 people, 36-40 years of age – 32 people, 41-45 years of age – 27 people, over 45 years of age – 19 people. Morphofunctional status of the instructor o#cers was assessed by the indicators of their height, body weight, lung vital capacity, wrist dynamometry, heart rate, blood pressure and relevant indices. Results: It was found that during the study (2019-2020) the Kettle index, vital index, strength index, Robinson index and duration of recovery processes deteriorated among instructor offcers of all age groups. However, in instructor offcers of 36-40, 41-45 and over 45 years of age most of indices deteriorated reliably (P < 0.05). The values of the studied indices are below average or low in most instructors of all age groups, most instructors are overweight. Conclusions: It was found that the level of morphofunctional status of the instructional sta" is insu#cient to perform the tasks of their pedagogical activities. Rationally organized health-improving physical training sessions, taking into account the age group, morphofunctional status of instructors and the time of training sessions during the working day can be an e"ective way to solve this problem.