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Socio-economic aspects of physical activities for seniors in Prague
Batelka, Ondřej ; Bunc, Václav (advisor) ; Mudrák, Jiří (referee)
Title: Socio-economic aspects of physical activities for seniors in Prague Objectives: The aim of study was to find out what are the socioeconomic aspects of walking and other physical activities Prague's population of seniors. Specifically find answers to questions, whether regular walk in this population affect the quality of life in old age, if those people bring motion standard from earlier stages of life, what are their motives for periodic walking, if they operate other physical activities than walking and whether is there a coherent categories of pedestrians. Methods: In this thesis were used quantitative and qualitative research methods. The source of quantitative analysis was the questionnaire WHOQOL OLD with a complementary inquiry on walking. The sample consisted of 156 respondents and was divided equally between pedestrians and non-pedestrians. There were used methods of descriptive statistics and statistical hypothesis testing. For qualitative analysis was with a part-respondents (pedestrians) made an interview, investigating their socioeconomic status, the motives for carrying out walking and other activities, and also was made their segmentation. Results: Statistically significantly higher quality of life (at 95% confidence level) in the domains of Independence, Filling, Nearby...
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Socio-economic aspects of physical activities for seniors in Prague
Batelka, Ondřej ; Bunc, Václav (advisor) ; Mudrák, Jiří (referee)
Title: Socio-economic aspects of physical activities for seniors in Prague Objectives: The aim of study was to find out what are the socioeconomic aspects of walking and other physical activities Prague's population of seniors. Specifically find answers to questions, whether regular walk in this population affect the quality of life in old age, if those people bring motion standard from earlier stages of life, what are their motives for periodic walking, if they operate other physical activities than walking and whether is there a coherent categories of pedestrians. Methods: In this thesis were used quantitative and qualitative research methods. The source of quantitative analysis was the questionnaire WHOQOL OLD with a complementary inquiry on walking. The sample consisted of 156 respondents and was divided equally between pedestrians and non-pedestrians. There were used methods of descriptive statistics and statistical hypothesis testing. For qualitative analysis was with a part-respondents (pedestrians) made an interview, investigating their socioeconomic status, the motives for carrying out walking and other activities, and also was made their segmentation. Results: Statistically significantly higher quality of life (at 95% confidence level) in the domains of Independence, Filling, Nearby...
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The quality of life of seniors in Prague with regard to walking
Batelka, Ondřej ; Bunc, Václav (advisor) ; Hráský, Pavel (referee)
Title: The quality of life of seniors in Prague with regard to walking Objectives:The aim of this study is to determine whether the regular walk of Prague seniors affect their quality of life Methods: In this work questionnaire methods, specifically the concept of Czech WHOQOL- OLD version with additional poll focused on the walk, were used. This questionnaire was applied to a sample of 148 elderly Prague residents who were divided into two halves called pedestrians and non-pedestrians. The task was to determine impact of walking in the lives of these respondents on their quality of life. Results: Statistically significantly higher quality of life on 95% level of significance proved the people who regularly practiced walking. Difference in the quality of life of women and men in senior age has not been proved. Motion standard, whatever it was, the people demonstrably brought with them from the earlier period of their life. Keywords: old age, senior, quality of life, walking
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