Motivational and value-based attitude of law enforcement
officers to motor activity as a factor of a healthy lifestyle
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, KYIV, UKRAINE
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VINNYTSIA MYKHAILO KOTSIUBYNSKYI STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY, VINNYTSIA, UKRAINE
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KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, KHARKIV, UKRAINE
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, KYIV, UKRAINE
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POLTAVA STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
Publication date: 2024-07-24
Wiadomości Lekarskie 2024;77(6):1224-1229
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Aim: To study the attitude of law enforcement officers to motor activity and investigate its impact on their health.
Materials and Methods: The research, which was conducted in 2022-2024, involved 163 law enforcement officers under the age of 30. Research methods:
bibliosemantic, questionnaire, testing, medical and biological methods, methods of mathematical statistics.
Results: It has been found that the vast majority of law enforcement officers (85.3 %) understand the importance of motor activity as a factor of a healthy
lifestyle, its impact on physical and mental health, and quality of their professional activities. At the same time, only 27.6 % of law enforcement office
systematically engage in motor activity, 52.8 % do it sporadically, and 25.8 % do not engage in it at all. Among the reasons that prevent them from exercising
are lack of time (65.6 %), lack of desire (31.3 %), and fatigue after a service day (28.1 %). It has been found that law enforcement officers who systematically
engage in motor activity have a significantly better level of health (7.31 points) compared to those who engage in occasional motor activity (5.07 points) and
do not engage at all (2.19 points).
Conclusions: The positive impact of motor activity on the level of health of law enforcement officers has been proved. Good health is a guarantee of high
resistance of law enforcement officers to negative factors of professional activities, professional longevity, and quality of their professional tasks.