Aerobic Glmnastic, Fitness, and Academic Grade of Health Diploma Students from Remote Areas in Indonesia

poltekkes kemenkes yogyakarta

2016-05-02

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Abstract: Grade of academic student achievement of Diploma Students from remote area of Indonesia showed under standard of academic evaluation which was lower than 2.75. The standard of education has been published by the Ministry of Education of Indonesian Republic as part of educational system inside the country. Purpose of this stu dy was to measure the effect of aerobic gymnastic to the wealth fitness, anxiety, and grade result of students from remote area. Method of this study used experimen tal stu dy by pretest and post test by group control design. Sample of this study was 79 stu dents from the North of Kalimantan which was 39 students were as group intervention and 40 students were as group control. The intervention was aerobic gymnastic which con ducted 5 times a week every morning for 4 weeks. Data analysed by Mancova with spec ific gender, age and parental education. Result of this study shown that p V <0,05 meaning to say was an effective correlation between aerobic gymnastic to the wealth fitnes, anxiety, and grade of students from remote area. Recomendation of this study that educational system in Indonesia can use aerobic gymnastic in order to increase wealth fitnesses, academic grade, and decrease of student anxiety. Keywords: Aerobic Gymnastic, Fitness, Anxiety, Academic grade