英文摘要 |
Introduction: the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of interventional orienteering program on the health-related physical fitness and body image for elementary school students with autism. Method: eight students with autism who are aged between 10 to 12 years old. The research design of this study is pre-experimental design. The participants' fitness and physical body image were measured before the exercise intervention. Then, the participants received orienteering for eight weeks, two times per week, and 40 minutes for each session. For physical fitness, including body composition, muscle fitness, softness and cardio-respiratory fitness; and body image, including appearance evaluation, health evaluation, body perception, motor ability assessment, and body part satisfaction before and after test results, the study used SPSS of windows version 22 to perform a paired sample t test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Finally, after the exercise training, the participants' fitness such as cardiovascular fitness, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and as well as body image such as appearance evaluation, health evaluation, body perception, motor ability assessment, and body part satisfaction were measured again to compare the changes in the participants' fitness and body image. Paired sample t-test and SPSS software were applied for statistical analysis. Conclusion: there were no significant differences in the physical fitness and body image of this study. According to the results of the study, some practical suggestions were made for further studies. |