The ultimate goal for every health-care system is to have a healthy population by maintaining good physical fitness levels and lifestyle habits, including regular physical activity, good sleep quality, smoking and alcohol abstinence. The main components of physical fitness include body composition, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance. National research based on actual and perceived physical fitness levels in University of Malta (UM) students where both physical and non-physical testing are included, is lacking. Also, to the knowledge of the researcher, no such research investigated the relationship between the actual and perceived levels of physical fitness with lifestyle habits (smoking, alcohol consumption and sleep). This study aims to investigate the correlation between the actual and perceived levels of physical fitness (body composition, cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility) by physical and non-physical testing, the correlation between lifestyle patterns (smoking, alcohol consumption and sleep.
Age range
18 Years – 30 Years
Sex
ALL
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Alcohol Consumption
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Tobacco Smoking
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Sleeping Pattern and Quality
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Perceived Physical Fitness
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Body Composition
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Body Composition
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Flexibility
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Flexibility
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Muscular strength and endurance
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Muscular strength and endurance
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Cardiovascular Endurance
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Cardiovascular Endurance
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.
Physical Fitness- Cardiovascular Endurance
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year.