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RELACION DEL HABÍTO DEPORTIVO EN EL RENDIMIENTO ACADEMICO EN ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS
(Universidad Técnica de Ambato/ Facultad de Ciencias de Salud /Carrera de Fisioterapia, 2024-08-27) Cepeda Silva, Nagiely de los Angeles; Guevara Llerena, María Elena
The main objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between sports habit and academic performance. 289 university students from the 6 courses offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato participa t e d in the study. Two instruments were used. to obtain data on the sports habit, a survey originally created by the researcher to obtain sociodemographic data of the populat i on , and the International Physical Activity Questionaire implemented since 2000 in order to assess physical activity while to evaluate academic performance. They used the general averages obtained at the end of the first partial of the academic cycle. This study is non-experimental with a cross-sectional methodological design and is managed under a quantitative approach, obtaining, from the Pearson correla ti o n coefficient -r-, to what extent sports habit is related to academic performance, the analysis Statistics were carried out using the SPSS program. Through the results of the study, it is shown that students who practice a sport obtain better acade m i c performance above the average of their grades.