Author(s)

Yueying Liang, Fang Yuan, and Jian Zhang

Corresponding Author

Jian Zhang

ABSTRACT

Objective: To understand the needs of college students ‘physical health education and its influencing factors, and to provide a reference for college students’ physical health education. Methods: This paper uses stratified cluster sampling method, selects ten universities undergraduate students in Tianjin as the survey object, investigates the needs of college students for physical health education, and uses SPSS 23.0 software to conduct χ2 test and multi-factor logistic regression analysis on the survey data. Results: 82.36% of college students stated that they needed a physical health education for college students, and 48.98% of college students said that they had not received or received little physical health education for college students during college. College students of different genders, father’s education level, mother’s education level, father’s occupation, mother’s occupation, and family monthly income per capita had statistically significant differences in health education needs (P<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis results showed that female students, non-medical majors, parents with education level in high school and below, and family per capita monthly income of 5,000 yuan and above were positively correlated with college student health education demand rate. Conclusions: Colleges and universities should pay attention to the cultivation of health education professionals and establish a reasonable teaching system; They should strengthen physical health education for college students, including nutrition and dietary knowledge, sports and fitness knowledge, lifestyle habits, safe medication, and healthy sleep. Sexual knowledge, knowledge of infectious diseases, and AIDS and other physical aspects of health education.

KEYWORDS

College students, Physical health education, Demand, Influencing factors